Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > A new release of Net::LDAPapi module is now available for Perl via CPAN. > This release includes compilation against OpenLDAP libraries from > version 2.1 forward. It now supports LDAPv3, including SASL binds. Great, glad to see this finally making it back out to the world. > Support for the Netscape (now Mozilla) C SDK has been kept, but not > tested. I welcome feedback on the usability with the Mozilla C SDK. > > Many thanks to Howard Chu and Symas Corporation for the work done to > realize LDAPv3 support with Net::LDAPapi. > > Net::LDAPapi can be obtained from: > > <http://search.cpan.org/~mishikal/Net-LDAPapi-2.00/> > > > For those who have never used Net::LDAPapi, it uses the C interface for > its LDAP operations. This means that it is much faster than the pure > perl Net::LDAP module from the perl-ldap package. However, it also > relies on having the C libraries it was linked against available. We've observed a 100:1 speed difference between Net::LDAPapi and Net::LDAP. Usually people writing perl scripts don't seem to take performance or efficiency into account, because they're just coding up a "quickie tool." But it then evolves into something else, and eventually gets deployed into production. We've seen this happen over and over with perl-based web login scripts, where gradually the web server gets bogged down under its authentication load. Switching from Net::LDAP to Net::LDAPapi has helped a number of our customers get their systems back up on their feet. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
