On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:49:47PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> >
> > i'm not convinced about the support for LDAP protocol, it looks like curl
> >tries to load libldap.so with something like dlopen.
>
> Correct.
>
> The depenency of a devel package is mentioned in KNOWN_BUGS #1.

oh.. i'm sorry, i should have read it :(

> The reason it dlopen()s the lib is of course to avoid having to link with
> the lib. It isn't really consistent with how libcurl uses other libs, but I
> doubt very many people use LDAP at all so this "problem" does bother very
> many. In a recent poll, 2% out of 154 voters claimed they use LDAP with
> curl.
>
> Anyhow, I have no plans to change this within the near future so if no one
> else does it, it'll remain like this for upcoming releases as well.

ok, thanks.

chers
domenico

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