Re: Connection timeout

[Philip Guenther <guenther+ldapsoft@sendmail.com>]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> I know about the time limit on the search, but is there a user-specified
> one on the connect?

The LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT option sets a timeout on the connect() call 
itself.  Its value is a struct timeval, so:

        struct timeval          tv;
	int			err;

	tv.tv_sec = timeout_in_seconds;
	tv.tv_usec = 0;

	err = ldap_set_option(ld, LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT, &tv);
	if (err != LDAP_SUCCESS)
		report_the_error(err);

Note that the OS's normal timeout for connection attempts acts as the 
upper limit on the timeout: requesting a longer timeout will have no 
effect.

The above option *ONLY* affects the connection attempt and nothing after 
that.


Philip Guenther