From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-03-12T19:34:32+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-ldap rebinding ?

* Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> [0351 09:51]:
> On Sat 12 Mar 2005 at 08:16:12 +0900, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps Net::LDAP remembers the details of the connection when it was
> > opened and silently performs another open when you perform a bind after
> > an unbind, but at some point, you're still opening a new connection.
> > It's just a question of whether it's implicit or explicit.
> > 
> > Ruby/LDAP could be made to do this, too, I think. The details passed to
> > LDAP::Conn.new could be put into instance variables. If the connection
> > is dead at bind time, these could be read and used to transparently
> > reestablish the connection before conducting the bind.
> > 
> > I'll look at how hard this would be to ship up in practice.
> 
> This feature is now in Ruby/LDAP's CVS and will be released in 0.9.1.
> 
> This allows you to perform an LDAP::Conn#unbind, followed by either an
> LDAP::Conn#bind or an LDAP::Conn#simple_bind to reconnect to the server,
> using different credentials if you wish.

Brilliant, thanks Ian!

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