Re: LDAP over IPC (Unix domain sockets) with OpenLDAP

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:48:18PM +0100, Peter Marschall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday 09 January 2003 14:43, Ziya Suzen wrote:
> > I was running some tests on my sand-box station and because my OpenLDAP
> > is compiled with TCP wrappers I cannot connect to it. Sure the
> > solution can be adding slapd to hosts.allow but I thought a better
> > solution could be using Unix sockets. And I came up with the following
> > patch to LDAP.pm. What do you think?
> >
> > BTW, I have only tested ldapi:// syntax. I wanted to get your opinions
> > before going any further.

I think your ldaps:// implementation is wrong. It needs todo what Net::LDAPS
is currently doing.

I also think the connect dispatch should look something like

  if ($host_or_url =~m!^([a-z]+)://([/\w\.\-\@\#\~]+?)(?::(\d+))?/?$!i) {
    my $connect = $obj->can("_connect_$1") or croak("Cannot handle $1 URIs");
    $host = $2;
    local $arg->{port} = $3 if $3;

    $obj->$connect($host, $arg);
  }

The foreach to allow the user to pass multiple hosts should be around this and
the old code.

> there has been a similar patch on the list a few weeks ago.
> It added a Net::LDAPI.pm file for the ldapi:// connection.

That was going to be my reply too :)

However after thinking for a bit, I think I like the option to pass a URI to
Net::LDAP and have it DWIM. Being able to specify different protocols when
giving a list of hosts to try to connect to might be useful.

Graham.