Re: [Perlgssapi-users] Building perlgssapi against other gssapi impls

[Achim G. <ac...@gr...>]

On Friday 24 February 2006 03:28, you wrote:
> Achim Grolms wrote:

> I think it is fair to say that perlgssapi was once a module primarily
> meant for use with mit krb's gssapi C headers (popular) ... but now it
> has heimdal header compatibility..

I've made it compile with Heimdal in 0.14 2 weeks ago.
At the moment I am waiting for feedback if the Heimdal support works
correct.

> I would be happy to see it evolve into a module that (on the perl side)
> claims to establish a good perl language binding to the higher-level
> gssapi, and (on the C side) is implemented by bridging only to the RFC's
> C binding 

correct.

> and providing implementations of missing C impl to provide the 
> perl functionality. eg oid_to_str is not hard to write and could be
> provided in the module so that it is available regardless of heimdal or
> mit underlying implementation...

correct.
My idead was to Write the oid_to_str equivalint
in Perl itself using the Convert::ASN1 module
and add a function to the XS that allows
to map already ASN1 encoded otctet sets
(or an array of bytes) into OIDs.

That means tha maximum of flexibility.

> anyway, that's just my 2c... i'll send patches next time ;)

Feel free to send suggestions :-)

Thank you,
Achim