React gracefully on LDAP timeouts
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enhancement
feature: ldap
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Description
When the LDAP server isn't reacting we should react gracefully and not make the requests to the server timeout. – Maybe show the maintenance page or so?
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the LDAP request handling and how unresponsive servers propagate through requests. Define the graceful failure behavior, such as a maintenance response, and verify that requests no longer wait for the LDAP server to time out.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- authentication, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100