why can't I use a URI?

[Jeremy Hansen <jeremy@methanesea.com>]

I'm trying to use a URI in my ldap config and for some reason it's not 
working.  Config:

uri ldaps://127.0.0.1/

and this is the error I receive:

Aug  4 14:19:07 distro sshd(pam_unix)[18374]: check pass; user unknown
Aug  4 14:19:07 distro sshd(pam_unix)[18374]: authentication failure; 
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=NODEVssh ruser= 
rhost=hansenj-ws
Aug  4 14:19:07 distro sshd[18374]: pam_ldap: ldap_starttls_s: Can't 
contact LDAP server

If I don't use a URI and it's just the host directive alone, host 
localhost, it works fine.

slapd is started like this:

 /usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap -h ldap:/// ldaps:///

What should I be looking for?

Thanks
-jeremy