Re: client timeouts [was: Re: multiple servers in DNS and TLS]

[manu@netbsd.org (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

Philip Guenther <guenther+ldapsoft@sendmail.com> wrote:

> Nope.  TIMELIMIT just sets the default for the value passed to the server
> in the search request.  There's no option for setting a default timeout to
> be used by the ldap_result() call.  What's more, there's no API of any
> sort for putting a timeout on TLS/SSL negotiation.
> 
> A long-lived program that needs to impose a time limit on LDAP operations
> that may include using ldap_starttls_s() or opening an ldaps URL basically
> has to do so in one thread or process and do the timing out in a separate
> thread or process.
> 
> (Or reimplement that part of the OpenLDAP API, I suppose.)

So how do you build a failover mechanism? Because it's something that
can be done, right?

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