Re: Referral following using Perl-LDAP??

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:07:47AM +0530, Parthasarathi V wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to Perl-LDAP and I'm trying a perl script that does the referral following.
> I've the following questions.
> 1. Can perl-LDAP support auto referral following ( the document says it doesn't but is there any latest version that does this)

No. But it has been on the plans for a while.

> 2. If I have to do it manually, should I write a seperate code using Net::Extra to do this?? If anyone tried a sample code that does this let me know.

Well write the code seperate and we can then see if it fits into the Net::LDAP::Extra
paradigm. If it does we will add it, but I think that there may be many issues
to get it generic enough.

> 3. Can I call the C-APIs in Perl-LDAP?? how can I set the LDAP options??

There is no C-API in Net::LDAP

Graham.