Questions about the status of perLDAP in the mozilla source repository:

Is it still being maintained?
Will client auth support ever be added?
Can we get the documentation fixed for the "certdb" argument to new?

According to http://www.mozilla.org/directory/csdk.html the LDAP C SDK
is still being actively maintained.  I'm glad to see that!

According to http://www.mozilla.org/directory/perldap.html the latest
perLDAP code is ~60 days old, suggesting that this code is still being
maintained. That's encouraging, if true.  But the FAQ is about 5 years old.
So, what's the status of perLDAP?

http://www.perldap.org/docs/Conn.html#item_new (a.k.a.,
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/directory/perldap/Conn.pm#1041 ) says:

> new
>
> This creates and initialized a new LDAP connection and object. The required
> arguments are host name, port number, bind DN and the bind password. An
> optional argument is a certificate (public key), which causes the LDAP
> connection to be established over an SSL channel.

It's actually the path name of the directory containing NSS's cert & key DBs.

> Currently we do not support Client Authentication, so you still have to
> use the simple authentication method (i.e. with a password).

LDAP C SDK supports client auth.  Will PerLDAP ever do so?

-- 
Nelson B  (NSS developer)
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