Re: Bind timeout??

[Mauro C. <mci...@si...>]

Jerry Lee wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm adapting a QT LDAP browser using PyQT and Python-LDAP that will be 
> freely available when it's useful - still a ways to got yet ;-)
>
> I have a question about bind.
> If I try to bind to a machine that isn't there, the app hangs for 
> about 90 secs.
>
> It seems to be stuck at ldap.simple_bind.
>
> Is there a way to make it timeout after a certain amount of time?
>
> I've looked at set_option(OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT) and OPT_TIMEOUT but 
> (assuming that bind actually looks at them) I can't figure out how to 
> put meaningful values in there.  Every time I 
> set_option(OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT,5.0)
> meaning a timeout of 5 seconds and then check the value with 
> get_option it reads
> 1.36904e+08 !!!!

Have you tried using an explicit timeout argument?
I usually call ldap.simple_bind this way:

        l = ldap.open(LDAPServer)
        id = l.simple_bind(LDAPbindUsername, LDAPbindPassword)
        status,res = l.result(id, 1, 60)
        if status != 'RES_BIND':
            return -1

The third argument to ldap.result is indeed the timeout.

It usually appears to work :-)

Mauro Cicognini