Hello,
I am trying to use the Netscape's Java LDAP API to communicate with the
iPlanet Directory Server v 5.0 and I am experiencing problems with the
server timeout setting.
If I set the server timeout value to 10 (ten) seconds,
LDAPConnection.isConnected() still reports true well after the ten seconds
(I have tested up to the one minute range) have expired. This is a big
problem since I occasionally get LDAPExceptions when trying to use this
connection after it should have timed out.
I have tried the exact same Java code against another vendor's LDAP server
and in that case the Java code works flawlessly
(LDAPConnection.isConnected() reports false immediately when the connection
is closed by the server) which leads me to the conclusion that the iPlanet
server does not close the connections correctly. This is confirmed with a
lot of open sockets on the machine that is running the LDAP server that are
not being closed...
Is this a known problem with iPlanet's directory servers (I get the same
behaviour from Netscape's directory server 4.x)? As it is today, I do not
see how we can use iPlanet's directory server.
FYI, I am using the Windows version of the directory server in case this is
a platform dependent problem.
Thank you,
Johan Persson
