RFC 4515 on Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): String Representation of Search Filters

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        RFC 4515

        Title:      Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): 
                    String Representation of Search Filters 
        Author:     M. Smith, Ed., T. Howes
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       June 2006
        Mailbox:    mcs@pearlcrescent.com, 
                    howes@opsware.com
        Pages:      12
        Characters: 23885
        Obsoletes:  RFC2254
        See-Also:   

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ldapbis-filter-09.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4515.txt

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) search filters are
transmitted in the LDAP protocol using a binary representation that is
appropriate for use on the network.  This document defines a
human-readable string representation of LDAP search filters that is
appropriate for use in LDAP URLs (RFC 4516) and in other applications.  
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This document is a product of the LDAP (v3) Revision
Working Group of the IETF.

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Sandy Ginoza
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