userPKCS12 and storage format

["Wyatt Neal" <wyattnealster@gmail.com>]

when i store a userPKCS12 binary file into the ldap directory using base64 encoding using the C LDAP API, the next time I try to retrieve the data, it is returned in base64 format; however, if insert the certificate using an ldif file from the command line and request the file using C, it comes back in binary format.  i'm using the binary values as my LDAPMod ops, what am I doing wrong?

 

wyatt