perl-ldap-dev

CLDAP

[Bing D. <Bi...@ci...>]

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

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

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