Re: start_tls and Net::LDAPS

[Bing Du <du...@mo...>]

Now that Net::LDAPS works, does that mean our directory server supports
SSL but not necessarily supports TLS?

From my understanding after reading the description of Net::LDAPS:

"...
 Note that the use of LDAPS is not recommended, because it is
 not described by any IETF documents. Instead, you should
 consider using LDAPv3 with the TLS extension defined in RFC
 2830. This will give you the same functionality as LDAPS,
 but using recognized standards. See the start_tls entry in
 the Net::LDAP manpage. ..."

Start_tls should at least do what Net::LDAPS can do.  Please correct me if
I'm wrong.  Thanks.

Bing

Bing Du <bi...@ta..., 979-845-9577>
Texas A&M University, CIS, Operating Systems, Unix

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Clif Harden wrote:

> 
> The first thing I would do is make sure your directory server
> supports TLS operation.
> 
> Clif
> 
> 
> 
> Bing Du wrote:
> > 
> > I'd appreciate anybody providing any hints or pointing me to any online
> > sources that would be helpful for fixing my problem with
> > start_tls.  Briefly Net::LDAPS works fine but start_tls does not.  More
> > details as shown below.
> > 
> > Net::LDAP version 0.251
> > Net::LDAPS version 0.03
> >
>