masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:

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If you want to be able to distinguish results based on scope then it makes more sense to just define a Search control. Like No-op - count the entries that would be returned, instead of returning them. (And bypassing the sizelimit too, but probably not bypassing timelimit.)

I'm drafting the code to implement this no-op search.

Maybe sizelimit should not be by-passed in all cases. How about letting the client choose which limits are by-passed?

Ciao, Michael.