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

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

> alin vasile writes:
>> 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.