Howard Chu wrote: For prototyping a back-sock listener in Python you could give module slapdsock a try: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/slapdsock Personally I use it for OATH-LDAP's bind listeners which seem to work fairly robust on moderate load. But the release 0.5.2 should also work with all other request types. If you have a non-trivial deployment the sheer amount of log data can cause some interesting performance issues. Ciao, Michael.