On Tue, September 20, 2005 1:02 am, Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 20/9/05 5:02, Christopher A Bongaarts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> In the immortal words of Dolan, Sean (N-ISYS Technologies Inc.):
>>> I know that Net::LDAP can support multiple hosts.
>>>
>>> [from documentation]
>>> "HOST may also be a reference to an array of hosts, host-port pairs
>>> or URIs to try. Each will be tried in order until a connection is made.
>>> Only when all have failed will the result of undef be returned
>>>
>>> When a bind is done, how can we tell which server it connected to?
>>> It'd be nice for logging purposes in our scripts.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Quick 'n' dirty, but bad OOP practice and may break in future
>> versions: you can get at the IO::Socket object after new() using
>> $ldap->{net_ldap_socket}, then use IO::Socket's methods to get
>> PeerHost/PeerAddr.
>
> Actually you can just call $ldap->socket() to get the IO::Socket object
> being used. This is a documented method, so is safe.
Right. But what Sean really wants is prtobably just what is stored in
$ldap->{net_ldap_host}. We should add a ->host method to return that.
A ->uri method to return ->{net_ldap_uri} may be useful too.
Graham.
