| Subject: | timelimit enforcement on the client |
The timelimit parameter to the search method is only enforced on the
server. An equivalent enforcement in the client is needed to cope with
servers which hang or do not honor the timelimit parameter. We have
seen this behaviour in W2K3 AD servers which accept the request, keep
the TCP connection open but do not respond for a long time
(occassionally they hang forever)
I have programmed round this in the applications by putting timeout
code around the call to the search operation but this does not allow
for the processing in the embedded page_entry operations to be long
running independent of the server request.