Re: [Fwd] Perl-LDAP-0.22

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

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from S Balasubramaniyan
> <sb...@no...> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:11:41 -0500
> To: "'gb...@po...'" <gb...@po...>
> From: "S Balasubramaniyan" <sb...@no...>
> Subject: Perl-LDAP-0.22
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> Hi Graham,
>                   Iam currently programming with your perl-ldap-0.22
> module , its quite interesting.
>    But i have a query , does your module support ldap v3 ?
>   Perhaps mine is just a layman question  as i could not run my piece of
> code for ldap v3 server.
> My piece of code which runs in v2 but not in v3 is :
> =========================================
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use Net::LDAP qw(:all);

You do not need (or want) to import all the module's symbols. Just do 'use
Net::LDAP;'

>   $ldap = Net::LDAP->new("ldapv2-server") or die "$@";
>   $mesg = $ldap->bind;

You have not specified what LDAP version to bind with. The default is
LDAPv2. You need to specify if you want LDAPv3. I assume the default is
LDAPv2 as that is likely to work with more servers.

>           my $result = $ldap->search (
>                 base   => "o=nortel",
>                 filter => "unique_key=12345",

That is not a legal filter that conforms to RFC 2254. At the very least
this should be:

		filter => "(unique_key=12345)",

Cheers,

Chris