Howard Chu wrote:
Chris Card wrote:
>
> When using the sssvlv overlay how does the client tell the server that the
sort request can be thrown away, so that sort requests don't hang around until
sssvlv-max or sssvlv-maxpercon are exceeded?
There is no official mechanism for this. This is a flaw in the Sorting/VLV
specification. For Paged Results you simply send a followup request with
pagesize set to zero, but that doesn't apply for VLV.
Btw, I noted this flaw to the IETF a long time ago but nobody seemed to notice
or care.
http://www.openldap.org/lists/ietf-ldapext/200907/msg00004.html
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