Re: ldapi:/// Unix & domain socket usage

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:35:38PM -0400, Eric T. Blue wrote:
> I've configured the 2.0.11 dist with --enable-local for LDAP_PF_LOCAL
> support.  I've also added a listener for ldapi:///, and on startup a named
> pipe is created under /tmp/389.  My question is: How do you use this?  Is
> there some sample code for using this, or any special considerations?  I
> originally had been doing some research on CLDAP and came across this from
> previous posts.  Is there any special advantage to this implementation over
> CLDAP?  I understand there should be much less protocol overhead, but the
> limitation is that the client must be on the same host as the LDAP server.

You use it by telling the client to connect to "ldapi:///"

Ben

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