Re: [HACKERS] LDAP auth

> > > Was there ever a decision in "the libcurl thread"?
> >
> > No, not yet.
> >
> > Personally I'm unconvinced that we should depend on
> libcurl: if it's
> > going to use openldap to do LDAP work, then the only good reason to
> > use libcurl rather than openldap directly is if there's some
>
> > clear use-case for libcurl's other features.  Which no one had
> presented AFAIR.  I'm
> > still willing to be convinced though.
>
> I'm almost done with implementing a patch that recognizes
> LDAP URLs in pg_services.conf and queries an LDAP server for
> a connection option string.
>
> Currently I'm coding against libldap, and I intend to submit
> the patch that way. If there are loud calls for another
> library, I think I could adapt the code without much hassle.
>
> The only other protocol I can think of that might make sense
> is HTTP, but I personally have never heard of a web server
> employed that way.

If you haven't already, look at the ldap auth patch in the queue for
some win32 specific issues - we do not want to rely on OpenLDAP on
windows, since there is a builtin version that's almost the same (close
enough).

(BTW, web servers are employed for *anything* these days...)

//Magnus