Re: Net::Ldap suddenly stopped working ..

On 13/3/06 9:27, Graham Barr <gbarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, March 13, 2006 2:17 pm, Chris Ridd wrote:
> 
>> (Adrian sent me the debug output direct.)
>> 
>> It looks quite like the server was sending mangled BER. The LDAP result
>> was
>> actually very large (so the byte offsets logged were OK), but the server
>> suddenly decided to send a PrintableString value instead of an OCTET
>> STRING
>> value, and it got even more confused from there on...
> 
> Hm, that alone should not cause an issue. I was expecting some length byte

Well, PrintableString != OCTET STRING, so the decode will fail. But you're
right, it should not whinge so publicly.

It did get horribly out of sync further on.

> to be wrong. Chris, can you forward the packet to me, I would like to take
> a look too.

Sure.

Cheers,

Chris