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.
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