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'):
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,
Response format
Depending on the HTTP Accept header provided by the user agent, LWP::Protocol::ldap can answer the requests in one of the following formats:
As an alternative to sending an HTTP Accept header, LWP::Protocol::ldap also accepts the "x-format" extension
Example:
ldap://ldap.example.com/o=University%20of%20Michigan,c=US??sub?(cn=Babs%20Jensen)?x-format=dsml
TLS support
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.
Example:
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.
Authorization
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.