Howard Chu wrote: ent. ut slapd a\ninfo: r Your script does not return any real 'RESULT..' responses. I also have less issues when just returning 'CONTINUE\n'. Not on Windows and no run-time configuration involved. Look at the raw string representations I've posted. That string goes dire= ctly to SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler.request.sendall(response_str). Can I raise the debug level? Log level trace does not really show the ori= ginal byte sequence received by the external listener. Ciao, Michael.