On Fri, 7 May 2010, Howard Chu wrote:

> Looking at the code, it appears that libcurl always connects to the target
> server before dropping into any URL handler code. And this LDAP module
> totally ignores that, and does its own ldap_init which creates another
> connection. So every use of LDAP creates a redundant socket / connection. Am
> I right?

You're the LDAP guy here, you tell us! ;-) I don't know anything about
OpenLDAP really, but the man page for ldap_init() says "does not open a
connection to the LDAP server." and that it "will occur when the first
operation is attempted.".

But I don't know which function that "the first operation" refers to in our
case.

> I wonder if the NOVELL_LDAPSDK support is worthwhile any more. Novell has
> been shipping a repackaged OpenLDAP client library for several years now.

Guenter might have a clue. You reading this? Any word on NOVELL_LDAPSDK?

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