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

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

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:20:44PM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
> 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.

You mean instead of deliberatly sending a malformed packet and expecting
an error response. But thats probbaly too evil :)

Graham.