ID: 15637
Comment by: sanjay_ichalkaranje at yahoo dot com
Reported By: cjm46543 at hotmail dot com
Status: Analyzed
Bug Type: Documentation problem
Operating System: Linux - RedHat 7.2
PHP Version: 4.4.0-dev
New Comment:
I was trying to test my code which supposed to tell me whether a LDAP
server is alive and rechable or not. But no matter what IP address I
specified in ldap_connect it returned a valid resource.
I found a way out by first pinging the server to know whether its alive
and then trying to bind to know whether it is running LDAP.
Previous Comments:
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[2003-06-27 08:17:50] iane at sussex dot ac dot uk
I can't get ldap_connect to return false, even when I
pass an invalid URI or an invalid hostname. At least, I
think ".*&%^$ldap.central.susx.ac.uk" is an invalid
host name, and so is "4". They both return ldap
connection resources, though.
It is important, because I need to be able to test the
hostname validity so that i know whether the problem
with the host is that (a) it doesn't exist (b) it is
down (c) the ldap service is down.
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[2003-05-04 05:17:43] gsivathanu at msn dot com
So, is there a way to find whether the LDAP server is valid or not ?
Gopalan Sivathanu
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[2003-04-01 11:04:14] egeczi at nospamplease dot dist113 dot org
This is not just a documentation problem.
Not only does
$ldap_connection = ldap_connect("does.not.exist")
return a resource id when it obviously shouldn't, but
ldap_bind($ldap_connection, 'username', 'password')
also returns true.
If the actual connect occurs with ldap_bind(), why does it return true
for a server that does not exist?
Regards.
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[2003-02-28 03:52:03] korte-php at et dot rub dot de
Rather anoying though since ldap_bind also fails when using a wrong
password... only looking at bind fails doen't neccessarily mean, that
the ldap server is down :(
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[2003-02-10 12:30:10] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When openldap 2.x is used, the ldap_connect() does not actually
connect, it just initializes the connecting parameters. The actual
connect happens with next calls
to ldap_* funcs, usually it is 'ldap_bind()'.
This is just documentation problem. Not any bug in code.
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