The lowest level call that will yield the desired version information is: irods.connection.Connection( pool, account ).server_version.
However, this is not sufficiently low-level as it tries to authenticate as well, so an invalid auth setup stands in the way of getting the server version.
The lowest level call that will yield the desired version information is:
irods.connection.Connection( pool, account ).server_version.However, this is not sufficiently low-level as it tries to authenticate as well, so an invalid auth setup stands in the way of getting the server version.