Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> LDAP also suffers from being a rather "bad boy" in libcurl in that it
has its own transfer-loop and doesn't work fine with the multi interface
etc. But LDAP at least has a URL syntax already defined.

In addition, LDAP is a protocol, while ODBC is not: it is a
"connector"-based interface; each connector may have its own protocol
(and that's the case) with the database, but access to the connector
from the calling program is done through a standardized interface that
has nothing to deal with network !
Received on 2009-01-22