fcusack@fcusack.com wrote:

Unfortunately I won't be able to contribute a patch as I've worked around it in my application (I created a separate thread to handle the ldap connect) so I can't afford to invest the time. Plus I needed a solution that would work with the Netscape API as well as OpenLDAP.

I did find LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT, which I didn't try, but which is close to the desired functionality. AFAICT it implements a *separate* timeout for the connect() (and maybe unbind/close()?) part of an ldap connection. Why someone would want to distinguish between connect() and bind I don't know, especially when they don't get feedback about how long connect() took.

It should be easy (?) to add something like LDAP_OPT_CONNECT_BIND_TIMEOUT which would be the total time for connect() and bind, given that non-blocking connect() is already implemented. That would probably solve a lot of folk's need for a working async bind.

I think you're missing a point: there's no bind timeout because there's no need for it. The delay (or the hang) you likely see when dong ldap_sasl_bind() is actually spent doing a connect() to establish a connection. ldap_initialize() doesn't actually establish any connection, it just sets up the handler, and the connection is established by the first operation that requires it. the asynchronous bind, muck like any other asynchronous operation, simply returns after sending the packet(s) containing the request. But, of course, the first of them requires the connection to be established, and that's where LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT comes into play. Doing a really asynchronous connect() implies returning some sort of LDAP_X_INPROGRESS, keeping track of the status of the connection and polling it for response for each subsequent call until the connection is established before actually sending any request. In this sense the change should be intrusive: in this design, client code should be able to handle the LDAP_X_INPROGRESS return code and resubmit the request until the connection is ready. A "smarter" design would cache the request, poll for connect() response during calls to ldap_result(), and submit the actual request when the connection is established.

p.

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