On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Chris Ridd did scribble:

> There's at least one way where these methods return a non-object. Mostly
> they call _error() to set an error code in a message object, but this isn't
> always true - if $ldap->socket fails the integer LDAP_SERVER_DOWN is
> returned (NB this is 81, so seems to be what you're getting)
>
> This is probably not right, as it is inconsistent.

I would agree. The inconsistency is made even more odious by a lack of
documentation indicating the potential for non-object return values.

> I suspect the socket failure case in _sendmesg() should be something like:
>
>     my $socket = $ldap->socket
>         or return _error($ldap, $mesg, LDAP_SERVER_DOWN, "$!");

*nod* Any chance someone can make this happen? :-)

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