Re: Persistent LDAP connection?

[Chris F. <cf...@vi...>]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:34:04 -0800  "Eric Parusel" wrote:
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 | Hi,
 | 
 |     I'm trying to get a perl script I've written to stay connected to
 | my LDAP server between searches...
 | This works great, until I take the LDAP server offline for a moment...
 | What happens is that I the next $ldaps->search comes around, which
 | results in a "Broken Pipe" and the program exiting.
 | I'd obviously prefer if, before that point, a check could be done, and
 | if the connection was dropped, try reconnecting.
 | 
 | So basically, is it possible to have a persistent ldap connection &
 | bind that will re-connect if disconnected?
 | 
 | I was unable to find anything in the archives with a clear solution...
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If $ldap = Net::LDAP then the underlying IO::Socket is available
as $ldap->socket.  You can check this for connected status with
something on the lines of

    if (!$ldap->socket->connected) {
	# ...
    } 

It'd be nice if this method were documented.

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