LWP::Protocol::ldap - Provide LDAP support for LWP::UserAgent
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'):
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.
LWP::Protocol::ldap implements the HTTP GET and HEAD methods. They are mapped to the LDAP search operation,
Depending on the HTTP Accept header provided by the user agent, LWP::Protocol::ldap can answer the requests in one of the following formats:
When the HTTP Accept header contains the text/dsml MIME type, the response is sent as DSMLv1.
text/dsml
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.
text/json
When the HTTP Accept header contains the text/ldif MIME type, the response is sent in LDIFv1 format.
text/ldif
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
x-format
Example:
ldap://ldap.example.com/o=University%20of%20Michigan,c=US??sub?(cn=Babs%20Jensen)?x-format=dsml
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.
x-tls
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.
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.
LWP::Protocol::ldaps, LWP::Protocol::ldapi
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.
To install Net::LDAP, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Net::LDAP
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Net::LDAP
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.