Pierangelo Masarati wrote: > Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >> --On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:16 PM +0200 Pierangelo Masarati >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >>> >>>> Why not use Net::LDAPapi or Net::LDAP (both perl) or >>>> PHP to do the password change? >>> >>> PHP can't do ldap exops (without my patch: >>> <http://www.sys-net.it/~ando/Download/#PHP>). >> Ah.. Have you filed a bug with the PHP folks? ;) > > Well, I tried, but got bounced with arguments like: > > - too many functions for a functionality (support for generic controls > in requests & responses; support for well-known controls, from either > RFCs or I.D.s; support for generic extended operations and extended > responses; support for well-known extended operations from RFCs or I.D.s) > > - function naming not intuitive (mutuated from the underlying libldap) > > - I made the mistake of using ldap_sasl_bind, which contains SASL it its > name; since my patch had nothing to do with SASL, this caused rejection. > > I could not argue to this, but I routinely get feedback from people that > download my patch and ask when is it going to be included in PHP. Note > that my patch is maintained for PHP HEAD, but it applies almost > straightforward back to PHP 4, which is (finally) being dismissed this > year. This is to mention how well maintained LDAP support is. I even > offered to become the maintainer myself, instead of those braindead who > (don't) take care of it right now. Probably, I'm not competent enough. >
Yeah, I don't think you have the experience to be honest. PHP is for expert programmers, not C hackers. You should know that! ;-) -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. OpenLDAP Engineering Team. E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community developed LDAP software. http://www.openldap.org/project/
