> > > Was there ever a decision in "the libcurl thread"? > > > > No, not yet. > > > > Personally I'm unconvinced that we should depend on > libcurl: if it's > > going to use openldap to do LDAP work, then the only good reason to > > use libcurl rather than openldap directly is if there's some > > > clear use-case for libcurl's other features. Which no one had > presented AFAIR. I'm > > still willing to be convinced though. > > I'm almost done with implementing a patch that recognizes > LDAP URLs in pg_services.conf and queries an LDAP server for > a connection option string. > > Currently I'm coding against libldap, and I intend to submit > the patch that way. If there are loud calls for another > library, I think I could adapt the code without much hassle. > > The only other protocol I can think of that might make sense > is HTTP, but I personally have never heard of a web server > employed that way.
If you haven't already, look at the ldap auth patch in the queue for some win32 specific issues - we do not want to rely on OpenLDAP on windows, since there is a builtin version that's almost the same (close enough). (BTW, web servers are employed for *anything* these days...) //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org