Hello Malka,

I do extensive perl programming for cgi scripts and other applications 
all using LDAP.
You need 2 packages.
- Mozilla::LDAP which you can get on http://mozilla.org/directory They 
call it PerlLDAP
- LDAPSDK. I'm using the iPlanet Ldap SDK. It can be found at 
http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/developer/ 

PerlLDAP his all different then DBI.

Good luck!

Martin Charbonneau

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malka Cymbalista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2002 3:09 am
Subject: web server connecting to LDAP server

> I am looking for software that will allow my web server to connect 
> to an LDAP server, and extract information from the ldap 
> directory. My web server runs apache on a Sun Solaris machine. I 
> do most of my programming in perl and have used DBI/DBD quite 
> extensively.I searched on CPAN to see if they have any modules 
> that can do what I want.  I notice that there is a DBD::LDAP. I 
> read the documentation a bit and at first glance I thought it was 
> the answer since I am already familiar with DBI/DBD.  However, 
> when I got to the section that explained that ldap is not a 
> relational database and does not have tables and that a 
> configuration file msut be set up that maps tables to ldap trees, 
> I started having second thoughts.
> So my question is, does anyone have experience with DBD::LDAP or 
> with something else that would do the job.    Thanks for any info.
> 
> 
> Malki Cymbalista
> Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science
> Rehovot, Israel 76100
> Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 08-934-3036
> 
> 
> 

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