Accessing an LDAP Server from Ruby via XL Routes Static

As part of our service, we offer a SOCKS5 proxy which is accessible on your assigned XL Routes Static server on port 1080.

SOCKS5 provides TCP level proxying so can handle all sorts of traffic including LDAP.

Ruby has a great LDAP library which can handle the bulk of the work but at the moment it doesn’t support sending traffic via a proxy.

To get around this limitation, we have produced a patched version of net-ldap which routes all LDAP traffic through our SOCKS proxy.

This requires a patched version of socksify-ruby, so you just need to install these two gems from our Github repository.

# Gemfilegem 'socksify', github: "xlroutes/socksify-ruby", branch: "master"gem 'net-ldap', github: "xlroutes/ruby-net-ldap", branch: "master"