[Fedora-directory-users] Re: Announce: Net-LDAPapi version 2.00 released

[Jim Schultz]

Quanah,

I would love to be able to try this new perl module in our OpenLdap 
environment. Unfortunately, it does not have a StartTLS method.
Our server requires 'security tls=128' for connections. Are there
any plans to add such a method to the package?

We currently use the perlldap module which does have this capability
and it works well for us (albeit a little slow). A faster C SDK module
would be much appreciated here.

Thanks,

Jim Schultz

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:24:52AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> A new release of Net::LDAPapi module is now available for Perl via CPAN. 
> This release includes compilation against OpenLDAP libraries from version 
> 2.1 forward.  It now supports LDAPv3, including SASL binds.
> 
> Support for the Netscape (now Mozilla) C SDK has been kept, but not tested. 
> I welcome feedback on the usability with the Mozilla C SDK.
> 
> Many thanks to Howard Chu and Symas Corporation for the work done to 
> realize LDAPv3 support with Net::LDAPapi.
> 
> Net::LDAPapi can be obtained from:
> 
> <http://search.cpan.org/~mishikal/Net-LDAPapi-2.00/>
> 
> 
> For those who have never used Net::LDAPapi, it uses the C interface for its 
> LDAP operations.  This means that it is much faster than the pure perl 
> Net::LDAP module from the perl-ldap package.  However, it also relies on 
> having the C libraries it was linked against available.
> 
> --Quanah
> 
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> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Developer
> ITS/Shared Application Services
> Stanford University
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