Re: Perl 5.6.1 and Net::LDAP

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

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:09:21PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:51:23AM -0400, Jim Harle wrote:
> > This from a year old posting on this list that I had saved.  Does anyone
> > know if things are better with 5.6.1?  My recollection was that the
> > problems were mostly with mult-threaded installations of 5.6.  Is that
> > correct?
> 
> 5.6.1 generally seems to be more stable than 5.6.0. I've not used
> Net::LDAP much with it, though. But where I have it's worked fine...

Yes 5.6.1 is much better, but I would still stay away from using
threaded-perl.

> hmm, can Net::LDAP do things like setting UTF8-ness on strings passed
> to/from an LDAPv3 server? I get the impression it's not trivial to do
> in pure Perl, though :|

Right, it is not trivial. And in 5.7.x this is one area that is being
worked on a lot. So I really dont want to do anything 5.6 specific.

In 5.7 there is and Encode module. Although I only see Net::LDAP
using this to get the octets of a value that has been passed and
has been tagged as utf8.

I don't think it will (yet ayway) be tagging the strings as they come
back as it does not know which values are utf8 and which are not
(eg a jpeg)

Graham.