LDAP SDK

API Documentation

• Copyright Notices
• Introduction
  
  • Overview of the LDAP Model
  • Overview of LDAP API Use
  • Changes from RFC 1823
• Common Data Structures
• LDAP Error Codes
• Initializing an LDAP Session
• LDAP Session Handle Options
• Working with Controls
• Authenticating to the Directory
• Closing the Session
• Searching
  
  • Reading and Listing Entries
• Comparing a Value Against an Entry
• Modifying an Entry
• Modifying the Name of an Entry
• Adding an Entry
• Deleting an Entry
• Extended Operations
• Abandoning an Operation
• Obtaining Results
• Handling Errors and Parsing Results
• Parsing Search Results
  
  • Stepping Through a List of Entries
  • Stepping Through the Attributes of an Entry
  • Retrieving the Values of an Attribute
  • Retrieving the Name of an Entry
• Encoded ASN.1 Value Manipulation
  
  • Encoding
  • Decoding
• Character Set Manipulation
• Using SSL
• Parsing LDAP URLs
• Utility Functions
• Function Index

LDAPv3 RFCs

RFC 2251

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)

RFC 2252

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions

RFC 2253

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names

RFC 2254

The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters

RFC 2255

The LDAP URL Format

RFC 2256

A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3

Other RFCs of Interest

RFC 1823

The LDAP Application Program Interface (LDAPv2 API)

RFC 2044

UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646

RFC 2195

IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response (CRAM-MD5)

RFC 2222

Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)

RFC 2247

Using Domains in LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names

Sample Code

search.c

Sample search client framework.

getval.c

Command-line LDAP search client to retrieve a single attribute value.

watchchange.c

More complex LDAP client to demonstrate extensions.