LWP::Protocol::ldap(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentatioLWP::Protocol::ldap(3)NAMELWP::Protocol::ldap - Provide LDAP support for LWP::UserAgent
SYNOPSIS
use LWP::UserAgent;
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$res = $ua->get('ldap://ldap.example.com/' .
'o=University%20of%20Michigan,c=US??sub?(cn=Babs%20Jensen)',
Accept => 'text/json'):
DESCRIPTION
The LWP::Protocol::ldap module provides support for using ldap schemed
URLs following RFC 4516 with LWP. This module is a plug-in to the LWP
protocol handling, so you don't use it directly.
In addition to being used with LDAP URIs, LWP::Protocol::ldap also acts
as the base class for its sibling modules LWP::Protocol::ldaps and
LWP::Protocol::ldapi.
Features
HTTP methods supported
LWP::Protocol::ldap implements the HTTP GET and HEAD methods. They are
mapped to the LDAP search operation,
Response format
Depending on the HTTP Accept header provided by the user agent,
LWP::Protocol::ldap can answer the requests in one of the following
formats:
DSML
When the HTTP Accept header contains the "text/dsml" MIME type, the
response is sent as DSMLv1.
JSON
When the HTTP Accept header contains the "text/json" MIME type, the
response is sent as JSON. For this to work the JSON Perl module
needs to be installed.
LDIF
When the HTTP Accept header contains the "text/ldif" MIME type, the
response is sent in LDIFv1 format.
HTML
In case no HTTP Accept header has been sent or none of the above
MIME types can be detected, and the x-format extension has not been
provided either, the response is sent using HTML markup in a
2-column table format (roughly modeled on LDIF).
As an alternative to sending an HTTP Accept header, LWP::Protocol::ldap
also accepts the "x-format" extension
Example:
ldap://ldap.example.com/o=University%20of%20Michigan,c=US??sub?(cn=Babs%20Jensen)?x-format=dsml
TLS support
For ldap and ldapi URIs, the module implements the "x-tls" extension
that switches the LDAP connection to TLS using a call of the start_tls
method.
Example:
ldap://ldap.example.com/o=University%20of%20Michigan,c=US??sub?(cn=Babs%20Jensen)?x-tls=1
Note: In the above example, ideally giving "x-tls" should be
sufficient, but unfortunately the parser in URI::ldap has a little
flaw.
Authorization
Usually the connection is done anonymously, but if the HTTP
Authorization header is provided with credentials for HTTP Basic
authorization, the credentials given in that header will be used to do
a simple bind to the LDAP server.
SEE ALSO
LWP::Protocol::ldaps, LWP::Protocol::ldapi
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Graham Barr, 2012 Peter Marschall. All rights
reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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