Re: ldap->ping?

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

On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:20:49AM -0500, Clif Harden wrote:
> > > is it version 2 or version 3 compliant?
> > > does it support ssl/sasl/whatever?
> > > does it limit search requests? (and what are they)
> > > does it have timeouts? (and what are they)
> > 
> > IIRC, This is all avaliable from the root DSE. But I guess you are looking
> > for a simpler approach than
> > 
> >   $dse = $ldap->root_dse;
> >   $dse->get('supportedVersions'); # I forget the attribute name
> 
> 
> Different vendors give different pieces of information and use 
> slightly different attribute names in the root DSE.  
> 
> One of our vendors uses supportedLDAPVersion and another vendor uses
> supportedVersion.

Yeah right. Probably even more reason to have a method do it for you.

> What about version 2, it gives you nothing.  There are a lot of 
> version 2 ldap systems still in use.

Well if you cannot get a root DSE, assume version 2

> End of my 2 cents worth of opinion.
> Probably wasn't worth 2 cents.

Ah, but I bet it cost me more :)

raham.