At 10:12 AM 1/6/2005, Brad Nicholes wrote: > I guess I am still a little unclear on what the advantage is >to using ldap:// + start_tls vs. ldaps://. The end result >is the same except that you have a secure connection to the LDAP >server on 389 rather than 636. Is that the only reason?
SunOne Directory servers support only ldaps:// SSLv3. Most OpenLDAP servers are configured only STARTTLS ldap:// TLSv1. Pretty significant difference, and a reason to support both of the protocols with any client that is able. Bill
