Re: Question: back-ldap connection retrying and rebinding necessary?

Howard Chu wrote:
> The rebind-as-user option was originally only used when chasing referrals. With
> the current code, your choices are to use proxyAuthz to assert a user identity
> on reconnect, or simply fail instead of reconnecting. Personally I'd lean towards
> the latter. For shared connections retrying is still appropriate, because we only
> share connections for special cases, like rootdn usage where we already know we
> can establish the correct credentials.

Ok, thanks.

I would like to work with this issue (in context of [1]).  

To summarize my understanding: when proxy currently would retry non-shared
connection, it can fail instead and disconnect the client.  Client can then continue by 
re-establishing connection and binding again.

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Tero

[1] https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9468