Can you post an example of a referral with code snippet that causes iDS to crash?
Mark Diggory wrote:
> Please direct me to someone involved with the design and development of the
> LDAP libraries, especially those associated with Referral mechanisms. I
> have an interest in working a bit on Referral managing and development and
> don't know where to start. I have some good ideas and a strong
> understanding of how referrals would be best managed in LDAP v3. and would
> like to pitch in. I have seen inadequacy in both how JNDI and Sun's
> libraries manage referrals (I can actually crash my (and anyones) LDAP
> servers using their libraries). As well, it appears that the Mozilla
> ldapsdk isn't retrieving the DN's and queries that exist in an LDAP
> referral url. I'd like to look into fixing this because much of my current
> work depends on the LDAP libraries referral mechanism behaving the way it
> appears it was designed to (to continue searches from the dn of the
> referral and not the entire server designated in the referral).
>
> Thank you
> -Mark Diggory
>
> At 06:37 PM 7/26/01 +0000, Mark Diggory wrote:
> >Is this list active, or is there a better place for me to cast such questions?
> >
> >Mark Diggory writes:
> >>I'm using the Netscape directory SDK with the example out of the users
> >>manual to search an ldap searver. This server has referrals in it of the
> >>structure ref: ldap://server:port/ou=xxx,o=yyy
> >>but the example only returns ldap://server:port of the url and I can't
> >>get the DN using getDN(). Here's the code on the example, any help would
> >>be benificial. I'd like to know how to get the dn part of the referral back.
> >>Thanks,
> >>Mark
> >>
> >> public static void main( String[] args )
> >> {
> >> /* Step 1: Create a new connection. */
> >> LDAPConnection ld = new LDAPConnection();
> >> try {
> >> /* Step 2: Connect to an LDAP server. */
> >> ld.connect( "lorien.fas.harvard.edu", LDAPv3.DEFAULT_PORT );
> >>
> >> ld.authenticate( "ou=ummu,ou=fed,o=vdc","secret" );
> >> LDAPSearchResults results = ld.search( "o=vdc",
> >> netscape.ldap.LDAPv3.SCOPE_SUB, "(objectClass=*)", null, false );
> >> /* Print the DNs of the matching entries. */
> >> while ( results.hasMoreElements() ) {
> >> LDAPEntry entry = null;
> >> try {
> >> entry = results.next();
> >> System.out.println( entry.getDN() );
> >> } catch ( LDAPReferralException e ) {
> >> System.out.println( "Search references: " );
> >> LDAPUrl refUrls[] = e.getURLs();
> >> for ( int i=0; i < refUrls.length; i++ ) {
> >> System.out.print( "\t" + refUrls[i].getUrl() );
> >> System.out.println( " " + refUrls[i].toString() );
> >> }
> >> continue;
> >> } catch ( LDAPException e ) {
> >> System.out.println( "Error: " + e.toString() );
> >> continue;
> >> }
> >> }
> >> } catch( LDAPException e ) {
> >> System.out.println( "Error: " + e.toString() );
> >> }
> >>
> >> /* Step 5: Disconnect from the server when done. */
> >> try {
> >> ld.disconnect();
> >> } catch( LDAPException e ) {
> >> System.out.println( "Error: " + e.toString() );
> >> System.exit(1);
> >> }
> >> System.exit(0);
> >> }
> >>
> >>Mark R. Diggory
> >>Software Engineer
> >>Harvard-MIT Data Center
> >>G-6 Littauer Center, North Yard
> >>Harvard University
> >>Cambridge, MA 02138
> >>(617)496-7246
> >
> >
> >Mark R. Diggory
> >Software Engineer
> >Harvard-MIT Data Center
> >G-6 Littauer Center, North Yard
> >Harvard University
> >Cambridge, MA 02138
> >(617)496-7246
