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

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

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:

> 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.
>

Well that's a bit *too* evil! V3 servers are at liberty to disconnect you 
if you do that, and I wouldn't be surprised if some v2 servers did 
something similar.

Cheers,

Chris