On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:00 -0500, Barrett, John wrote:
> More like this:
>
> use Net::LDAP::Constant;
> if ( $mesg->code == LDAP_REFERRAL ) {
> foreach my $ref ( $mesg->referrals ) {
> .
> .
> .
>
> Can Net::LDAP follow referrals automagically? If not why not?
An LDAP referral doesn't say which credentials would work. You'd need a
Net::LDAP::Credentials-like thing (that doesn't presently exist) that
contained your bind dn/sasl/password/etc for all the LDAP hosts that you
communicate with.
only then could Net::LDAP follow referrals across-hosts.
In the meantime, there's no reason why Net::LDAP couldn't follow
referrals back to the same host. They don't happen often, but I suppose
it'd be helpful when someone's base=> is broken.
