Re: LDAP

[Christian Huitema <[e-mail]>]

	For resultCodes of noSuchObject, aliasProblem, invalidDNSyntax,
	isLeaf, and aliasDereferencingProblem, the matchedDN field is
	set to the name of the lowest entry (object or alias) in the
	DIT that was matched and is a truncated form of the name
	provided or, if an alias has been dereferenced, of the
	resulting name.  The matchedDN field should be set to a NULL DN
	(a zero length string) in all other cases.

The alias case is very ennoying. Suppose I provide <CN=Name, OU=Foo, O=Bar,
C= XX>, and that LDAP returns the "matched attributes" <C=Foobar, C=YY>. How do
I know whether this matched 2 or 3 components? Should we return a "matched
name parts" count in complement to the matched attributes? Or an alias
indication?

Christian Huitema
PS.
Aliases stink.