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LDAP Control Extension for Simple Paged Results Manipulation

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Network Working Group                                        C. Weider
Request for Comments: 2696                                   A. Herron
Category: Informational                                     A. Anantha
                                                             Microsoft
                                                              T. Howes
                                                              Netscape
                                                        September 1999


      LDAP Control Extension for Simple Paged Results Manipulation

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999).  All Rights Reserved.

1. Abstract

   This document describes an LDAPv3 control extension for simple paging
   of search results. This control extension allows a client to control
   the rate at which an LDAP server returns the results of an LDAP
   search operation. This control may be useful when the LDAP client has
   limited resources and may not be able to process the entire result
   set from a given LDAP query, or when the LDAP client is connected
   over a low-bandwidth connection. Other operations on the result set
   are not defined in this extension. This extension is not designed to
   provide more sophisticated result set management.

   The key words "MUST", "SHOULD", and "MAY" used in this document are
   to be interpreted as described in [bradner97].

2. The Control

   This control is included in the searchRequest and searchResultDone
   messages as part of the controls field of the LDAPMessage, as defined
   in Section 4.1.12 of [LDAPv3]. The structure of this control is as
   follows:









Weider, et al.               Informational
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