Re: [Fwd: Re: (ITS#5881) referral problem with refreshAndPersist mode]

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Unfortunately, I think the spec is broken here. There's no way for the
> consumer to record the references it receives, because they're not accompanied
> by the DN of the entry that triggered the reference. It would have made more
> sense for the provider to send the references uninterpreted, as regular LDAP
> entries.
>
> Any suggestions?

Discussed this a bit with Kurt. The ContentSync protocol is not solely a 
DSA-DSA sync protocol. When used as such, the consumer is responsible for 
sending the ManageDSAiT control with its sync request, to make sure that it 
receives actual entries, and not search references. HEAD has been patched 
accordingly.

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