Re: [Fwd] perl-ldap and multiple start_tls errors

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

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Todd Woods <tw...@di...> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:18:20 -0500 (CDT)
> To: gb...@po...
> From: Todd Woods <tw...@di...>
> Subject: perl-ldap and multiple start_tls errors
> 
> 	Couldn't find anything using google on this error so e-mailing
> you. 8) 
> 	I can't start more then 1 LDAP bind using start_tls in a perl
> script.  It errors out from IO::Socket::SSL when issuing start_tls on the
> subsequent ldap objects event if I do an unbind first.
> 	Reading under IO::Socket::SSL I noticed that it mentions you can
> only have one SSL context at a given time.  I've seen scripts (haven't run

Yeah, I saw that too. I suspect that only having a single SSL context means
you can only have a single SSL connection at a time.

> them though) where an ssl socket was opened/closed multiple times in a
> script.  So wondering if this is a problem with perl-ldap.

I'm not sure that opening/closing an SSL socket is really what you want to
do, but if you can you point us at the scripts which do this that might
give us more info.

> 	Does an unbind request in perl-ldap close the underlying
> IO:Socket:SSL created when a start_tls method is invoked on an ldap
> object? 

No, the socket only gets closed when the $ldap object gets destroyed. In
practice, that's when the $ldap variable goes out of scope.

> 	Thanks,
> 		Todd
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 



Cheers,

Chris