LDAP - Programming Directory - Enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

• Understand the LDAP API
• Learn how to write LDAP programs
• Understand how to LDAP-enable an existing application
• Learn how to use a set of command-line LDAP tools to search and update directory information

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. A Quick-Start Guide to LDAP Programming
3. The LDAP Models
4. Preparing to Program with LDAP
5. Overview of the LDAP API
6. Initialization and Configuration
7. LDAP Programming with Threads
8. Handling Errors
9. Search
10. Search Filters
11. Distinguished Names and Sorting
12. Compare
13. Authentication
14. Update
15. LDAP URLs
16. Using the LDAP API to Build an Application
17. LDAP Command Line Tools
18. Using the Command Line Tools to Build Applications
19. Future Directions
A. LDAP Resources
B. LDAP API Reference
C. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
D. A String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes
E. A String Representation of Distinguished Names
F. An LDAP URL Format
G. A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters