Re: ldap_<set/get>_option() weirdness

[Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> ldap_set_option() and ldap_get_option() have many strange behaviors.
> Which of these should I document, which should be changed, and which
> options and nuances below should just be omitted from the man page?
>
> (I'm reading some libldap source and
> doc/drafts/draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api-xx.txt.)
>
>
> * ldap.conf vs. C API:
>
> ldap.conf options BINDDN, BASE, PORT have no equivalent C API calls.
>
> ldap.conf options SASL_AUTHCID, SASL_AUTHZID, SASL_MECH, SASL_REALM
> cannot be set with the C API.
I think it would be a very good idea to make all options settable in 
ldap.conf also settable through C API .
Otherwise OpenLDAP forces all applications that use libldap to also use 
ldap.conf, which might be unacceptable when an application has own 
configuration system.

Regards,

Alexey
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