From: Jason Rohwedder <jro@...>
Date: 2006-08-30T02:54:15+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-ldap on Windows (built)

Excellent.. I'll have to start retrofitting some of my ruby/ldap  
based scripts over, and playin' around.

-jason

On Aug 29, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:

> 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.