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authorHans Nilsson <[email protected]>2014-12-05 15:57:55 +0100
committerHans Nilsson <[email protected]>2014-12-08 14:19:46 +0100
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eldap: Clarifies documentation for start_tls and search
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-rw-r--r--lib/eldap/doc/src/eldap.xml20
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/eldap/doc/src/eldap.xml b/lib/eldap/doc/src/eldap.xml
index 4417551aa8..c4b1ac36ca 100644
--- a/lib/eldap/doc/src/eldap.xml
+++ b/lib/eldap/doc/src/eldap.xml
@@ -107,19 +107,23 @@ filter() See present/1, substrings/2,
</type>
<desc>
<p>Upgrade the connection associated with <c>Handle</c> to a tls connection if possible.</p>
- <p>The upgrade is done in two phases: first the server is asked for permission to upgrade. Second, if the request is acknowledged, the upgrade is performed.</p>
- <p>Error responese from phase one will not affect the current encryption state of the connection. Those responses are:</p>
+ <p>The upgrade is done in two phases: first the server is asked for permission to upgrade. Second, if the request is acknowledged, the upgrade to tls is performed.</p>
+ <p>Error responses from phase one will not affect the current encryption state of the connection. Those responses are:</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>tls_already_started</c></tag>
<item>The connection is already encrypted. The connection is not affected.</item>
<tag><c>{response,ResponseFromServer}</c></tag>
<item>The upgrade was refused by the LDAP server. The <c>ResponseFromServer</c> is an atom delivered byt the LDAP server explained in section 2.3 of rfc 2830. The connection is not affected, so it is still un-encrypted.</item>
</taglist>
- <p>Errors in the seconde phase will however end the connection:</p>
+ <p>Errors in the second phase will however end the connection:</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>Error</c></tag>
<item>Any error responded from ssl:connect/3</item>
</taglist>
+ <p>The <c>Timeout</c> parameter is for the actual tls upgrade (phase 2) while the timeout in
+ <seealso marker="#open/2">erl_tar:open/2</seealso> is used for the initial negotiation about
+ upgrade (phase 1).
+ </p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -224,9 +228,9 @@ filter() See present/1, substrings/2,
</type>
<desc>
<p> Modify the DN of an entry. <c>DeleteOldRDN</c> indicates
- whether the current RDN should be removed after operation.
- <c>NewSupDN</c> should be "" if the RDN should not be moved or the new parent which
- the RDN will be moved to.</p>
+ whether the current RDN should be removed from the attribute list after the after operation.
+ <c>NewSupDN</c> is the new parent that the RDN shall be moved to. If the old parent should
+ remain as parent, <c>NewSupDN</c> shall be "".</p>
<pre>
modify_dn(Handle, "cn=Bill Valentine, ou=people, o=Example Org, dc=example, dc=com ",
"cn=Bill Jr Valentine", true, "")
@@ -253,6 +257,10 @@ filter() See present/1, substrings/2,
Filter = eldap:substrings("cn", [{any,"V"}]),
search(Handle, [{base, "dc=example, dc=com"}, {filter, Filter}, {attributes, ["cn"]}]),
</pre>
+ <p>The <c>timeout</c> option in the <c>SearchOptions</c> is for the ldap server, while
+ the timeout in <seealso marker="#open/2">erl_tar:open/2</seealso> is used for each
+ individual request in the search operation.
+ </p>
</desc>
</func>