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Re: ldapuri vs. ldaphost



Dieter Klünter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The manual pages ldapsearch(1) et.al. describe ldapuri abbriviation as
> -H and ldaphost abbriviation -h. Both, ldapuri and ldpaphost
> description might be of host name or host ip. If ldapuri is a ipv6
> address,  an error occurs:
> Could not parse LDAP URI(s)=2001:16b8:c115:9f00:44ff:f15b:11d1:e620 (3
> 
>  ldapsearch -YGSSAPI -H 2001:16b8:c115:9f00:44ff:f15b:11d1:e620 -b "" -s
> base +. Just for verification one may use ipv6 address ::1
> 
> The question is: must ldapuri contain a hostname, or would a
> hostaddress be sufficient. While ldaphost accepts hostname and
> hostaddress?

ldapuri must contain a URI. That is why it is called what it is.

A bare hostname or IP address are not valid URIs.

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