Re: Listing rootDse with Perl-Ldap

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 10:38 AM 7/26/2004, Bousquet Francois wrote:
>I am trying to setup an OpenLDAP server with TLS on Solaris 7.
>
>I am setup slapd.conf with TLS settings and my LDAP client too.  Everything
>is working fine because I can use the ldapsearch command as will.

Then your problem is likely with Perl-LDAP and should be
directed to a Perl-LDAP list.

Kurt


>I am trying to use Perl scripts to connect to the ldap server and I get the
>following error when trying to list the supported extension of the server,
>do you have any idea which config is missing in my slapd.conf ?
>
>THE SCRIPT :
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
>use Net::LDAP;
>use Net::LDAP::Constant qw(LDAP_EXTENSION_START_TLS);
>
>print "Before new\n";
>$ldap = Net::LDAP->new('ud1981wfx01', port => 636, onerror => undef,
>debug=>'8');
>
>print "Before root\n";
>$root = $ldap->root_dse();
>
>print "Before supported_ext\n";
>if ($root->supported_extension(LDAP_EXTENSION_START_TLS)) {
>  # try start_tls now
> print "should start_tls here\n";
>}
>else {
>  print "not working !\n";
>}
>
>
>
>THE ERROR :
>
>Before new
>Before root
>Net::LDAP=HASH(0x3ee040) sending:
>Before supported_ext
>Can't call method "supported_extension" on an undefined value at ./test.pl
>line 13, <DATA> line 225.
>
>
>It seems like root_dse() doesn`t return anything...   because it can't
>access the rootdse on the ldap server.
>
>Any idea
>
>- Francois