Sounds like someone has a cn that is sent iso-8859-1 encoded from the server, not UTF-8 encoded as the standard specifies. Try fetching a different set of attributes.

/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)

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2003-08-07 15:35: Subject: LDAP decoding problem

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Using Pike 7.2.259 delivered with Roxen 2.2.252 I tried to extract a huge amount uf user data via LDAP search. This ended badly:

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object s = c->search("(objectclass=liustudent)", 0 ,({ "cn", "uid", "dn" }));

utf8_to_string(): Unexpected continuation block 0xb4 at index 7. /export/home/zino/roxen/roxen/server-2.2.252/pike/lib/pike/modules/Protocols.pmod/LDAP.pmod/client.pike:137: _get_attr_values(3,Types.asn1_sequence()) /export/home/zino/roxen/roxen/server-2.2.252/pike/lib/pike/modules/Protocols.pmod/LDAP.pmod/client.pike:154: _New_decode(({"*censored*",,,4447 0})) /export/home/zino/roxen/roxen/server-2.2.252/pike/lib/pike/modules/Protocols.pmod/LDAP.pmod/client.pike:194: create(({"*censored*",,,44471}),0 ) /export/home/zino/roxen/roxen/server-2.2.252/pike/lib/pike/modules/Protocols.pmod/LDAP.pmod/client.pike: Stdio.File("socket", "*censored*:389", 777 /* fd=7 */)->result() /export/home/zino/roxen/roxen/server-2.2.252/pike/lib/pike/modules/Protocols.pmod/LDAP.pmod/client.pike:937: Stdio.File("socket", "*censored*:389", 777 /* fd=7 */)->search("( objectclass=liustudent)",0,({"cn","uid","dn"})) -:1: ___Foo4711()

We are talking more than 40k users, so "out of memory" (or death by signal) I could have expected, but not this. What goes wrong really?

Sidenote: A streaming search would probably be good if someone has time they don't know what to do with. This particular search takes more than one hour to execute.

(I can solve my problem in other ways, but connection->search()->next()->fetch()->next()->fetch() and so on seemed natural when I'm going to check every user.)

/ Peter Bortas (med ny klient)