295913 - LDAP Wildcard Query is Invalid

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Erich Hoover]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1

Mozilla Thunderbird's LDAP Query for "ALL" (*) is performed incorrectly and is
rejected by OpenLDAP.  "Normal" queries are fine, a search for "blah" is:
(|(mail=*blah*)(cn=*blah*)(givenName=*blah*)(sn=*blah*))
However, a simple wildcard query (*) searches for:
(|(mail=)(cn=)(givenName=)(sn=))
Instead of:
(|(mail=*)(cn=*)(givenName=*)(sn=*))
and so they are rejected by OpenLDAP because they turn into:
(|(?=undefined)(?=undefined)(?=undefined)(?=undefined))

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup OpenLDAP
2. Setup Thunderbird to use the OpenLDAP server
3. Open the address book and search for "*" (no quotes)

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird sends a search request of:
(|(mail=)(cn=)(givenName=)(sn=))
and returns no users

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should have sent a request of:
(|(mail=*)(cn=*)(givenName=*)(sn=*))
and returned a list of all of the users on the LDAP server.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.