Re: use-case for clientctrls?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> After so many years passing around parameter clientctrls (e.g. in a
> wrapper module) I'm still wondering which use-cases this argument is
> meant for.
>
> I only found [1] but this seems akward today anyway.

Agreed, OID-based controls for client-side library behavior seems rather 
unwieldy. I would agree though, that per-request control of library behavior 
is a good thing. The C API still has no ldap_search() parameter for alias 
deref behavior. It's a bit ridiculous that it's a library-level option, since 
the option only has relevance to search requests.

> Any more client controls?
>
> Ciao, Michael.
>
> [1]
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api-05#section-11.3.1


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