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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Aegypten] plan: LDAP support via new kioslave!
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-01 17:38:35
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On Thursday 01 November 2001 12:21, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:

> > Marko Samastur and I came up with something here a while ago. The idea
> > was basically to have the TCPSlaveBase make the TCP socket connection,
> > and pipe the socket through to a unix domain socket. The OpenLDAP client
> > lib has some (underdocumented, but supported) capabilities to use a
> > domain socket instead of a TCP socket. Don't know if Marko got anywhere
> > with that one though...

> this sound very good, by doing so KDE would gain all the benefits from
> the TCPSlaveBase while still being able to use OpenLDAP.
>
> IMHO it would be nice to have this undocumented feature made a documented
> one - to make sure it will be there in future versions of OpenLDAP as well.

   Do you guys have any idea why on earth they require this to be done via a 
socket?  This seems just downright nutty to me.   It might even be a good 
idea to write a patch for OpenLDAP to allow the user to specify the socket to 
use and bypass builtin SSL support.

-- 

George Staikos

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