On our web servers, we currently use a basic authentication mechanism and do authorization using DB lookups. We run mod_perl and Apache::DBI which caches DB handles, so this is all very fast.

We are looking at converting our authentication/authorization to LDAP, and in our tests the performance is about equal *if* the LDAP connection is also persistent. Yet in my searches, I can't find a module like Apache::DBI to provide a persistence mechanism for the LDAP connections. The closest I've found are cache and persistence directives for the mod_auth_ldap module for Apache 2. We're still on Apache 1 so that doesn't help me.

Do any of the wise monks out there know of a perl module that implements persistent LDAP connections? Any suggestions about how to do this? Do we need to write our own? Or is this a reason to upgrade to Apache 2.0?

In reply to Persistent LDAP connections in Apache by cbrandtbuffalo

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