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Re: Automatic referral chasing



<quote who="Pierangelo Masarati">
> Jim Schultz wrote:
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>> I will add this content to the OpenLdap software faq in order to
>> contribute
>> at least a little bit to the documentation.
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> The above sounds basically correct.  Perhaps you could coordinate with
> Gavin in contributing it directly into the admin guide.  This topic
> belongs to both replication and chaining, so I'd leave him any editing
> choice.  I'd just add that you may want to add

I've already taken a copy. This brings me to adding an "Aknowlegdements"
section or similar for tracking this.

I'll add a new Appendix.

Yes, in the Chaining overlay section and a discussion with a pointer in
the replication section back to it.

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> chain-return-error TRUE
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> in fact, by default, if chaining fails, the original referral is
> returned to the client, under the assumption that the client might want
> to try different measures to reach its goal.  With this statement, if
> chaining fails at the provider's side, the actual error is returned to
> the client.

Shall we update the man page regarding re-assert bind etc.?

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