At 02:58 PM 7/27/01 -0600, you wrote:
>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
