Net::LDAPS − use LDAP over an SSL connection
use Net::LDAPS;
$ldaps = Net::LDAPS−>new('myhost.example.com',
port => '10000',
verify => 'require',
capath => '/usr/local/cacerts/');
# alternate way
use Net::LDAP;
$ldaps =
Net::LDAP−>new('ldaps://myhost.example.com:10000',
verify => 'require',
capath => '/usr/local/cacerts/');
Communicate using the LDAP protocol to a directory server using an encrypted (SSL) network connection. This mechanism is non-standard but widely supported; consider using LDAPv3 with the standard TLS extension if possible (many servers do not support it yet.) See "start_tls" in Net::LDAP.
All the normal "Net::LDAP" methods can be used with a "Net::LDAPS" object; see Net::LDAP for details.
new ( HOST [, OPTIONS ] )
Create a new connection. HOST is the hostname to contact. OPTIONS is a number of key/value pairs. See "new" in Net::LDAP for details.
Net::LDAP, IO::Socket::SSL
You cannot have more than one LDAPS connection at any one time, due to restrictions in the underlying Net::SSLeay code.
Chris Ridd <[email protected]>
Copyright (c) 2000−2004, Chris Ridd and Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.