Re: problems with start_tls

[Keith A. C. <cl...@ac...>]

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???


keith

Christopher A Bongaarts wrote:

>As Keith A. Clay once put it so eloquently:
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>>openssl s_client -host oracleOidServer -port 636 -CAfile oracle.pem -debug
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>>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.
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>start_tls changes an existing non-SSL session (usually on port 389) to 
>SSL.
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>Use Net::LDAPS instead of start_tls to do a completely SSL session to
>port 636, like your openssl example.
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