Referral support (was: port of Net::LDAP::Entry)

[Michael Ströder]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> 
> If you switch off internal referral handling you will receive search 
> continuations along with normal search results as tuples with None as 
> first item and a string containing the LDAP URL as second item.

I forgot something: If the search root is itself matched by a 
referral a ldap.REFERRAL exception is raised.

You have to extract the referral's LDAP URL and matched field from 
the exception instance. Feel free to check out web2ldap's sources 
pylib/w2lapp/handler.py and pylib/w2lapp/referral.py. Your mileage 
may vary.

Note that there are many issues to deal with either in your 
concept or your application when extensively using referrals.

Ciao, Michael.