Re: referrals

[Derrick 'd. H. <dma...@dm...>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:52:44AM +0200, Michael Str=C3=B6der wrote:

| >>Jerome Alet wrote:
| >>>Is there some code example somewhere on how to deal with them ?

| You could try to let the OpenLDAP libs handle the referral by setting:
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| ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS,1)

I tried this.

(actually, I wrote
    ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, ldap.LDAP_OPT_ON)
 instead of using a literal integer.)

| Note that referral handling in OpenLDAP libs is considered to be broken.

Indeed, it didn't work.


My experience, thus far, is that very few applications actually handle
referrals.=20
    gq:         no
    web2ldap:   yes
    imp/horede: no
    python-ldap/libldap2:   no      (not automatically, as noted above)

It was a rather disappointing discovery when setting up the fallback
server.

-D

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