Re: referrals

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Jerome Alet wrote:
> 
 > I'd prefer my program to ignore the LDAP
 > architecture of the particular site, since it must work on
 > many different ones.

I can understand this goal (see web2ldap) but...

> I just want my software to deal with a single LDAP server at any 
> time, and if for a particular operation python-ldap receives 
> informations telling it that another server should be asked for this 
> operation instead, then I'd really like python-ldap to do all the 
> dirty work automatically for me,

Think about these aspects:

Which bind information (method, username or bind-DN, credentials) to use at 
the referred server?

Should the application continue to use the referred server after referral 
has been received or switch back to the original server?
(Hint: Think about referrals being knowledge references to other parts of 
the DIT vs. your master-slave scenario.)

You can believe me: I already thought about various aspects. I never came up 
with some ideas I was really confident it will work in a generic way.

Ciao, Michael.