Re: test for connection timeout?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Sunday, April 01, 2007 12:52 AM -0400 Brandon McCombs 
<bmccombs@ma.rr.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can anyone tell me whether OpenLDAP has provisions for a client to
> determine whether a connection has timed out proactively instead of
> alerting a user that the connection has been closed due to timeout only
> after they attempt an operation? If not then I'll know I will have to
> roll my own method of keeping the connection alive through a periodic
> query of some sort.

You might look at the persistent search function in my Stanford::Directory 
perl module:

<http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory/clients/perl.html>

which tests to see if the connection has closed, and if it has, reopens it, 
before performing a search.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Senior Systems Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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