From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-08-30T02:14:18+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-ldap on Windows (built)

On 8/29/06, Jason Rohwedder <jro@codegrinder.com> wrote:
> I don't have a V2 server; I was more concerned with the versions of
> OpenLDAP that don't recognize it... Is there a way to deal with
> getting all the results from a not recent OpenLDAP server?  Thanks.
>

Net::LDAP works seamlessly with older OpenLDAP servers that don't
support paged queries. I know because I use one in production all day
long.

For what it's worth (and at the risk of igniting some flames): I'm
quite convinced that paged-searches were invented by Microsoft
primarily to lighten the load on their somewhat, ummm... "challenging"
LDAP implementation. (Bear in mind that LDAP support was tacked onto
A/D after the core was designed.) If you read the paged-search RFC,
they blow some smoke about lessening the load on *client*
implementations.

OpenLDAP added paged searches recently, but their older
implementations don't suffer particularly for the lack. I routinely
query 100,000 entries out of an old OpenLDAP on a low-end workstation
to test Net::LDAP, and it doesn't break a sweat. It's not fast, but
it's stable.