Re: CLDAP

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Bing Du <Bi...@ci...> wrote:
> I have ever posted a question concerning searching speed to
> perl-ldap-dev.  The suggestions I received were to use async mode rather
> than sync mode.  Just saw an article lately concerning how CLDAP is good
> at improving performance. Does Net::LDAP have anything to do with CLDAP?
> Or there is an separate module for taking care of CLDAP operations?  We
> are using MessagingDirect directory server R5.0 on IRIX.  Sorry if this
> question is off topic.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bing
> 
> Bing Du <bi...@ta..., 979-845-9577>
> Texas A&M University, CIS, Operating Systems, Unix

CLDAP (RFC 1798) is a kind of minimal subset of LDAPv2 that runs over UDP.
It only has a search operation and search result, so there's no
authentication or modification etc. It can be an extremely useful protocol
though in situations where you want *lots* of really simple lookups. Think
of it like using DNS. Mail routing via the directory is the reason why
CLDAP was invented.

Net::LDAP does not currently support CLDAP. Do you fancy adding support for
it? The encoding/decoding part is trivial. The more interesting part is the
different I/O.

I know that all releases of the MessagingDirect software support CLDAP ;-)
but do any other servers?

Cheers,

Chris