Re: how to handle connection to server if server runs away?

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Jonathan Leto <jon...@le...> wrote:
> If I had problem with timeouts, you would just have to come up with a
> heuristic of checking if the server is alive ( I dont' think anything
> like $ldap->ping exists, THAT would be cool ) and then do a check at the
> beginning of every function.

The best (ie cheapest in terms of protocol) way to do that in LDAPv3 would 
be to read a specific attribute (eg supportedLDAPVersions) from the root 
DSE, and throw away the results.

I can't think of a simple and portable way to do this in LDAPv2.

Cheers,

Chris