Metacat

added a manual timeout to counteract the hideously long ldap time out that is encountered when a referred ldap server is down.

updated the referral mechanism so that metacat doesn't crash when a referral server is not available

made it so we can now use multiple accessfilestypes and packagdfiletypes in the metacat.properties file. Also fixed a bug introduced when the 'http://' was removed from behind the server name in the loaddtd.sql script and the knb.xml file

Fixed the getUsers() and getPrincipals() methods so that they no longer
fail when large result sets are requested. The problem was that the
LDAP server was returning a "size limit exceeded" message when the resultset
from the query exceeded the default limit of 500 entries. Now we...

Re-enabled referrals which I had turned off for debugging purposes.

Modified AuthLdap to fix the may problems associated with group and user
queries. Now the getGroups() and getUsers() methods work as advertised,
and there is a test of each of the methods in "main" for testing purposes.
Simplified the class substantially. Fixed the getAttributes method as...

fixed error where person with 'all' permission could not update the access file.

fixed error where person with 'all' permission could not update the access file.

fixed referral catching mechanism in authLdap.ldapAuthenticate() so that it will refer through a bunch of linked servers instead of just one....I still haven't figured out why the getGroups method wont work.

fixed the error where the ldap authenticate took 15 seconds to execute