Hi gheist,
Thanks a lot for your reply. I am aware that there is no native oracle drivers available for FreeBSD. However, the recent oracle instant client (10.1) does indeed work on Freebsd - there's even its port in the ports tree! That client is dependent on the Linux compatibility libraries, hence I was unable to compile anything that depends on it, apart using the included sqlplus in the original linux ELF binary form. So maybe one other option is to compile an authenticator in Linux ELF format, and run it in bsd in compatibility mode, then hook it to mod_auth external.
As for LDAP, I still see it as an overkill for apache authentication. Java virtual machine setup and teardown is far too much of an overhead for reducing TCP waiting time to have any significance. However I'm still pounding on the option to build a bespoke java servlet just to do the authentication, thus reducint the need to invoke java everytime, and can do some caching as well. What would you think?
Cheers.
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by: gheistPosted on 2005-06-30 at 01:44:54ID: 14336351
1. there cannot be - oracle makes no drivers for freebsd nology/tec h/java/sql j_jdbc/htd ocs/ jdbc_f aq.htm especially about nodelay
2. oracle ships LDAP server, i donot now if/how it works
3. see http://www.oracle.com/tech
*. this works, i have not heard stories, but you may get them in Oracle TA by moving your question there