Richard Megginson wrote: > > > Net::LDAP allows you to use all of the LDAPv3 controls and extended > operations by providing an ASN.1 parser. I personally like the OO > interface of Net::LDAP. Me, too. I like it a lot. It's very clean, and well thought out. > Mozilla::LDAP is a wrapper around the C libraries, so it is as much as a > factor of 10 faster. So if you need as much performance as you can get, > use it instead of Net::LDAP which is native perl. Also, if you want to > use Mozilla NSS for crypto, you must use Mozilla::LDAP - Net::LDAP uses > Net::SSLeay which is a wrapper around openssl. One thing to mention here is that Net::SSLeay does not allow more than one concurrent LDAPS handle. Most people don't need that, but worth noting anyway... My reasons for using Net::LDAP are that it is ubiquitous, well tested, and well maintained. Another reason is that it's platform independent, which can be a real lifesaver if you need to deliver the same code to e.g. win32, linux, and unix machines. I have probably written more than 100k lines of code with Net::LDAP, and I recommend that if you are just getting started using perl with LDAP that you start to do the same :-) Net::LDAP is drop-dead easy to code to and drop-dead easy to subclass, which makes for very rapid development. When I design a piece of LDAP functionality which needs to be really fast I just write it in C to begin with. I don't see much sense in using a perl wrapper around C libraries. BR, -- mike
