Hi again, :)

I'm trying to make head or tails of Net::LDAP for the creation of a passthru gateway to an LDAP server. I'm kinda stuck with my brain in neutral but here it goes:

I have a 3rd party application that authenticates against an LDAP server. The application does not support SSL or any sort of encrypted communications to the LDAP server. The perl script would act as a passthru gateway but would capture the ldap query and responses.

My goal is the prove to the vendor that supporting SSL is a good thing.

I'm assuming I need to start off with Net::LDAP::Control but I'm not certain. Am I completely off my rocker and totally caffeine deprived or am I on the right track?

UPDATE: After extensive googling, I ran across LDAP-interop OpenLDAP Perl Backend which describes a perl based LDAP proxy. hmmm. I'm starting to think I could just listen on a port and forward the data stream verbatim to the LDAP server and to a file. I'll post the code in the code section for the ldap passthru gateway (used for diagnostic purposes).

Jason L. Froebe

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In reply to LDAP passthru server... by jfroebe

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