Re: bind fallback

[Michael B Allen <mba2000@ioplex.com>]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:58:38 +0200 (CEST)
"Pierangelo Masarati" <ando@sys-net.it> wrote:

> >> deprecated), and it's intended to be the opposite of ldap_initialize(3)
> >> (formerly, ldap_init(3), now deprecated).  The name might sound
> >> misleading; it comes from draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api.
> >
> > Funny the latest draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api-xxx.txt from webcvs has
> > no mention of ldap_initialize(3). Is this really portable? Are these
> > functions ok to use with 2.2?
> 
> Yes.  The draft is very old and its design is a bit outdated.  OpenLDAP
> implements the calls in the draft, but most of them are deprecated in 2.3
> and may no longer be supported in the future.  OpenLDAP provides valid
> alternatives to deprecated code.  Anything but ldap_initialize() should be
> used to initialize a connection, for example.  It has been around for a
> long time (2.something, possibly 2.0).  I don't know about portability
> with respect to other implementors (and I don't want to).

So what you're saying is that OpenLDAP will not be following industry
accepted standard APIs and may even remove functionality wrt those
standard APIs?

> In general, fixing memory leaks in obsolete code sounds like a waste of
> time.

Understandable.

Thanks,
Mike