Re: CLDAP

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

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:49:23AM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
> 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 have always intended for Net::LDAP to support CLDAP, I just never got to it.

It could either be by a sub-class, Net::CLDAP, or maybe an option to ->new

If anyone wants to have a go, then go right ahead.

Graham.

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