perl-ldap-dev

How do you know when you've lost connection?

[Eric N. <eni...@cp...>]

Everything is running smoothly with Perl-LDAP.  After working with
Netscape's perldap I've found this stuff to be much easier to work with.

I do have one quick question.  I've got pretty poor connections here and
have often lost my LDAP connections.  Is there anyway for Perl-LDAP to tell
me if the connection is down?

Historically what I've seen is that on my next ldap search after a
disconnection I get an LDAP_LOCAL_ERROR
Thanks
Eric

Re: How do you know when you've lost connection?

[Ron H. <th...@cc...>]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Eric Nichols wrote:

> Everything is running smoothly with Perl-LDAP.  After working with
> Netscape's perldap I've found this stuff to be much easier to work with.
> 
> I do have one quick question.  I've got pretty poor connections here and
> have often lost my LDAP connections.  Is there anyway for Perl-LDAP to tell
> me if the connection is down?

	Only way I know is to poke it.

	There is an LDAP_UNAVAILABLE error code
	so you can poke it trap the error try a rebind and
	then fail gracefully if the server does not respond.

	That would be error 52.

	HTH


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