Re: Persistent LDAP connection?

[Eric P. <li...@gl...>]

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:34:04 -0800  "Eric Parusel" wrote:
>  +------------------
>  | 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...
>  +------------------
>
> 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.

Hmm, no such luck finding $ldap->socket->connected....   I've found
that $ldap->socket exists, but I could find anything in
IO::Socket::SSL or IO::Socket::INET that indicated that there is a
"connected" function (or anything similar to that)...

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Eric Parusel