Re: (ITS#8847) New LDAP URL syntax to support binding to specific IP address at client side

[ryan@openldap.org]

On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 01:50:23PM +0000, arekkusu@r42.ch wrote:
>Adding a source IP to an URI feels wrong to it.
>
>I have not read RFC dealing with URI, however having a quick look [1] seems to
>indicate that using the at sign in this way is non-standard.

I agree. @ in URIs is already defined as separating credentials (or just 
username) from the host. I don't recall whether OpenLDAP supports that 
usage but in any case we shouldn't re-define it.

I believe ITS#8654 is about the same feature? That one implemented this 
by copying a Microsoft option, LDAP_OPT_SOCKET_BIND_ADDRESSES. I would 
think that's probably a better approach. Maybe you could pick up where 
the author of that one left off? He disappeared after posting his patch 
for review...

thanks
Ryan