Kurt@OpenLDAP.org wrote:

On Jan 31, 2009, at 11:21 AM, hyc@symas.com wrote:

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ando@sys-net.it wrote:

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h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:

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ando@sys-net.it writes:

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Proxy backends use ldap_set_option(3) to set alias dereferencing when requested by a search operation (and do not clean it up afterwards, as far as I can tell). Since LDAP handlers are pooled and reused, this behavior is inherently broken.

[..] I recall complaining about this deficiency in the API back in 1998, when I first wrote back-ldap. Alias deref has always been a part of the protocol, but it has always been missing from the API. Perplexing...

Yes, of course, one might use the client control mechanism to add an ability to set deref on a call by call basis instead of introducing yet another function.

Hmm, maybe I missed something in this discussion and about the usage of client controls.

But I'd vote for another function which provides a complete set of arguments for sending search requests. So if ldap_search_ext is considered incomplete regarding alias dereferencing I'd vote for introducing ldap_search_ext2 (or whatever name) with an additional argument.

Ciao, Michael.