Re: problems with start_tls

[Christopher A B. <ca...@tc...>]

As Keith A. Clay once put it so eloquently:

> The Net::LDAPS docs say that you should not use it since it is has no 
> IETF docs and tls does.  So,  if I build a system on top of it will it 
> go away???

Not likely.

> Christopher A Bongaarts wrote:
> 
> >As Keith A. Clay once put it so eloquently:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>openssl s_client -host oracleOidServer -port 636 -CAfile oracle.pem -debug
> >>   
> >>
> >[...]
> > 
> >
> >>I would assume the start_tls would point to port 636 rather than 389. 
> >>When I set the port to 636 in the constructor it just hangs the program.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >start_tls changes an existing non-SSL session (usually on port 389) to 
> >SSL.
> >
> >Use Net::LDAPS instead of start_tls to do a completely SSL session to
> >port 636, like your openssl example.
> >
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