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

[John B. <joh...@ne...>]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Graham Barr wrote:

> > 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 :)

Heh. I didn't have the gall to suggest that.

You could do something like issue a hopefully-low-impact search request.
(scope=single entry, pick a base, have an explicit filter
(cn=hopedoesntexist), ask for only 'cn' attribute back). But it still
feels icky.


On the issue of 'layers over Net::LDAP', I must have missed the "we don't
want sizelimit etc. management". Is there a real desire for a more
'cooked' API? (I quite like the current one...). Things like
$ldap->exists( $dn ) might be nice though.

Whether that API lived in the Net::LDAP namespace/bundle or elsewhere
shouldn't be relevant to what it could do - what do people want? Do we
want a Net::LDAP::Cooked or Net::LDAPCooked module? If so what kind of
features would people want?

jb