Re: How to time out queries with no result?

[Mark W. <mew...@un...>]

The timeout only applies before you get a response. Most likely the server
has sent a response to your request, thus the timeout never comes into
play.

If you think there is a bug in the timeout code, send a copy of the output
of $ldap->debug(3).

Mark

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Thomas Fahle wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> how to time out queries that have no result?
> 
>     use Net::LDAP;
>     use Net::LDAP::Util qw(ldap_error_name ldap_error_text) ;
> 
>    $ldap_host = 'xx.xx.xx.xx';
>    $ldap = Net::LDAP->new($ldap_host)  or die $@;
> 
>    # superbroker account
> 
>    $ldap->bind(dn             =>  'cn=Administrator,
> o=SomeCompany,ou=Members',
>                             password => 'topsecret',
>     ) or die $@;
> 
>     $base= 'o=SomeCompany, ou=Members';
> 
>     $surname = 'McDonalds';
> 
>     $searchstring = "sn=$surname";
> 
>    $result =  $ldap->search(
>                                                 base => "$base",
>                                                 filter =>
> "$searchstring",
>                                                 timelimit => '10',
>                                                 );
>    $result->code && die $result->error;
> 
>    $Number_of_Entries = $result->count;
> 
>    &handle_entries unless ( $Number_of_Entries == 0);
> 
> If the surname exists everything works fine.
> 
> But the query won't time out when there is no result.
> I've tried the $SIG{ALRM} approach, too.
> 
> 
> Enviroment:
> 
> MS-LDAP
> Net::LDAP    0.19  on a Red-Hat Linux-Box
> 
> 
> Tia
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
> 
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