Re: chasing referrals

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

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:35:08AM +0100, Lars Thegler wrote:
> From: "Terry Davis" <td...@bi...>
> > I feel a need to chase referrals.  I am getting the idea that this is
> > not default behavior for perl-ldap.  How can I make this happen for me?
> 
> You right - this is not default behaviour. The overall consensus is that it
> must be up to the application, when and how to chase referrals. Especially
> authentication against the referred-to server needs to done carefully.

Yes, you are right. But that does not mean Net::LDAP could not provide a framework
to help it happen.

Basically my thought was that the user would have to tell Net::LDAP that they want
to chase referrals by registering a sub which, given an LDAP URL, would create the
connection and do the auth.

I have not thought much beyond that, so if anyone want to bounce a few ideas, go ahead

Graham.