Re: ssl ldap

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:14:45PM +0300, Jani Taskinen wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joshua Brindle wrote: > > > Is ldap over ssl available (or going to be available soon) in php? i saw > > some references to ssl in ldap.c but only for NSLDAP, how about for > > openldap? Novell ldap servers prefer ssl connections for authentication > > so i was wondering if the maintainer of that module had any plans on > > adding that support? Thanks > > There is SSL support in the openldap 2.0 devel version which has also > LDAPv3 support. I haven't tried that yet but when it's released I'll > look into it. > > It seems like no major modifications is needed to php ldap since > the ssl is done on the ldap library level. So only the library has to be > compiled with ssl support..but I'm not 100% sure about this. I don't know either when it comes to OpenLDAP. I'm adding support for Oracle's LDAP SDK now, they have a separate call for turning on SSL, so I may have to add a PHP way of turning it on too. We must be careful how we do it though, the last thing we want is confusion where people might think they have SSL turned on, but haven't. Stig