Re: Net::LDAP

On 29 Mar 2010, at 14:06, Leilani Tubungbanua wrote:

> Hi Mr. Barr,
> 
> I have read your CPAN documentation for Net::LDAP.  I do have few questions whose answers I can not find in the documentation.  Hopefully you are the right person to ask these:
> 
> 1.       Using the Net::LDAP or related modules, how can we extract the etime (elapsed operation time) for each LDAP operation?

Call time() before sending the operation, and time() after blocking for the return. You probably want finer-grained versions than time(), but you get the idea.

> 2.       If the LDAP server being queried is behind a proxy firewall, how do we define the proxy server?  I am not sure that the Control OID “LDAP_CONTROL_PROXYAUTHENTICATION (2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.18) “ would be sufficient for this requirement. If yes, can pls please advise where to specify the proxy server, and/or username/password?

You're looking for network-level proxying, like HTTP can do using PAC files; that LDAP control is for use with an existing connection to an LDAP server, and lets you authenticate as 'leilani' (say) and do operations while authorized as, for example, 'manager'.

I don't know if LDAP has any support for the sort of network proxying you're thinking of.

Cheers,

Chris