Re: (ITS#5916) Allow alias dereferencing in search C API

[ando@sys-net.it]

h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
> ando@sys-net.it writes:
>> Proxy backends use ldap_set_option(3) to set alias dereferencing when
>> requested by a search operation (and do not clean it up afterwards, as
>> far as I can tell).  Since LDAP handlers are pooled and reused, this
>> behavior is inherently broken.
> 
> I note you committed this with an ldap_int_* interface. 

Yes, that's because I needed it internally.

> But it could
> be useful outside OpenLDAP code too.

Yes, that will probably be the next step.  But to make it publicly 
available I should have called it ldap_search_ext2, or 
ldap_search_really_ext or something like that.  I think we need to make 
it public based on demand and after a ballot on the name.

> Seems to me this is what client-side controls are for.  Extending the
> client-side functionality without needing a new API.

Well, since alias dereferencing is part of the protocol, I think using a 
client-side control is sort of an overkill :)

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
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