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Re: library

Friedrich Locke wrote:

Hi folks,

i would like to write a library that implements ldap client connection to the
server, as usual, the default routines:
For simple ops this isn't a big task, but when you add referrals to the mix it gets a bit messier.
Here's some design points to keep in mind so you don't make the same mistakes as current libldap does. 

http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/LDAP_C_API



connect
bind
search
unbind
etc ...

I wonder if there is a documentation showing how data is encoded with asn.1
ber encoding.
Rules for BER are in X.690. You can download the latest spec for free from the ITU-T. 

http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.690/en

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