Hi Monks

I have a script that I'm using on a Windows 2003 64-bit server, to do LDAP queries and updates. It runs fine from the command line but I need it to run as a CGI script.

When running in CGI, I get an error

IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname '<hostname>'

When I try putting in an IP address instead of a host name, I get:

IO::Socket::INET: Unknown error

Does anyone know of a reason why IO::Socket would fail in this situation? Here is the code up to where the failure occurs

use strict;
use Net::LDAP;

# global variables
#

my $bind_dn = "uid=xxx,ou=Directory Administrators,dc=xxx,dc=com";
my $bind_pw = "secret";
my $host = "ldapd1.xxx.com";

my $port = 389;
my $group = "Operator";
my $action = "add";

# Read in user name from Web Field
my ($buffer, @pairs, %FORM);
$ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "POST")
{
    read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
} else {
    $buffer = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
}

@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach my $pair (@pairs)
{
    my ($name, $fvalue) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $fvalue =~ tr/+/ /;
    $fvalue =~ s/%(..)/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    $FORM{$name} = $fvalue;
}

my $mail = $FORM{'j_username'};

# Print out header stuff
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.01\/\/EN\" \"htt
+p:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/html4\/strict.dtd\">\n";
print "<html>\n";
print "<head>\n";
print "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=
+UTF-8\">\n";
print "<link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=\"/css/default.css\" />
+\n";
print "<title>Request Access</title>\n";

if ($mail eq "") {
    printError ("You must enter a user name");
}
# configuration
#
my $usr_base_dn = "ou=people,ou=global,dc=xxx,dc=com";
my $grp_base_dn = "ou=xxx,ou=groups,ou=services,ou=global,dc=xxx,dc=co
+m";

# open an LDAP connection
my $ldap = new Net::LDAP($host, port => $port);

if (!$ldap)
{
   printError ("Cannot contact Directory Server: $@\n");
   exit;
}

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Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Rich

In reply to Net::LDAP in a CGI script by rhirst

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