Michael Ströder wrote: > h...@symas.com wrote: >> 4.2.2.2 fedfsFsn >> IMO name/port should just be an LDAP URL. Also your definition provides >> absolutely zero information of how the LDAP server should be contacted (e.g. >> using ldaps or StartTLS) which both can be encoded in an LDAP URL. > > Which standard describes how to mandate use of StartTLS with a LDAP URL? > OpenLDAP has its own extension key-word "StartTLS" and I'm also using it with > web2ldap. But AFAIK this is not defined in any standard which could be > referenced in a RFC.
True but irrelevant. The point is that standardizing on a URL syntax today future-proofs a spec and allows it to handle new connection mechanisms that may appear in the future. Host/port is inextricably tied to networking in the 1980s. > http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200202/msg00060.html > http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200810/msg00034.html > > Ciao, Michael. > -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/