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

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 12:53 PM 7/3/2001, Ben Collins wrote:
>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.

That seems a bit odd. IIRC, socket should be named /tmp/.ldapi_sock.

>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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