Re: Keep alive functionality when the remote closes the conenction due idle

alin vasile writes:

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My question is how the openl ldap library (libldap and libldap_r) handles the situation when the number of kee-alive probes for a connection is exceeded and the connection is closed at the server side.

Sounds like you want ldap_set_rebind_proc(). See man 3 ldap_bind.

The keepalive options are merely TCP options. The server can close connections for other reasons too in any case, such as idletimeout in slapd.conf. Without a rebind proc, the client then receives LDAP_SERVER_DOWN (I think).

As far as I know, the function registered by ldap_set_rebind_proc(3) is only invoked to bind when chasing a referral.

p.