Philip Guenther wrote: > I agree that ldap_initialize() should > behave as it currently does, setting up the handle but not opening any > connections.
So this would need ldap_initialize() to defer calling ldap_start_tls(). I don't think that's what Pierangelo has in mind. > Hmm, StartTLS implies/requires protocol version 3. It seems unfortunate > that ldap_initialize() wasn't made to default to version 3. Lacking a > change to that, what should happen if you use one of these URIs without > setting the version to 3? Another valid point. Well, I've changed the default for the protocol_version in python-ldap to VERSION3 and no-one ever complained... > c) automatically change version, because confusing people is fun. On some X.500 servers one can configure different charsets if LDAPv2 is used... Ciao, Michael.