Re: chasing referrals

[Clif H. <cl...@di...>]

> 
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 03:00:31PM +0000, John Berthels wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > I think the ability to pass in a sub to do the bind is a good idea.
> 
> Not just the bind, the connection too. This would allow the application
> to do cacheing of the connections if it whished. I do not expect
> Net::LDAP to cache connections from chasing referrals.
> 
> > Presumably one concern is that chasing a referral attempts a bind to
> > another server, which involves presenting credentials, sometimes a
> > cleartext password.
> 
> Right, but with this approach that is completely under the control of the application
> 

I would like to see everything stay with application/user supplied 
subroutine. This puts the application/user in control of everything.  
Odds are that any of us that chase referrals already have this 
methodology implemented.

Clif