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.TH LDAP 3 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"	.TH LDAP 3 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
.\" $OpenLDAP$	.\" $OpenLDAP: pkg/ldap/doc/man/man3/ldap.3,v 1.34.2.3 2005/08/29 18:26:09 kurt Exp $
.\" Copyright 1998-2005 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.	.\" Copyright 1998-2005 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
.\" Copying restrictions apply. See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.	.\" Copying restrictions apply. See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.
.SH NAME	.SH NAME
Line 60 Errors can be interpreted by calling	Line 60 Errors can be interpreted by calling
.BR ldap_err2string (3).	.BR ldap_err2string (3).
.SH LDAP versions	.SH LDAP versions
This library supports version 3 of the Lightweight Directory Access	This library supports version 3 of the Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAPv3) as defined in RFC 3377. It also supports a varient	Protocol (LDAPv3) as defined in RFC 3377. It also supports a variant
of version 2 of LDAP as defined by U-Mich LDAP and, to some degree,	of version 2 of LDAP as defined by U-Mich LDAP and, to some degree,
RFC 1777. Version 2 (all varients) should be viewed as obsolete.	RFC 1777. Version 2 (all variants) should be viewed as obsolete.
Version 3 should be used instead.	Version 3 should be used instead.
.LP	.LP
For backwards compatibility reasons, the library defaults to version 2.	For backwards compatibility reasons, the library defaults to version 2.
Line 76 All character string input/output is exp	Line 76 All character string input/output is exp
encoded Unicode (version 3.2).	encoded Unicode (version 3.2).
.LP	.LP
Distinguished names (DN) (and relative distinguished names (RDN) to	Distinguished names (DN) (and relative distinguished names (RDN) to
be passed to the LDAP routines should conform to RFC 2253. The	be passed to the LDAP routines should conform to RFC 2253 UTF\-8
.BR ldap_explode_dn (3)	string representation.
routines can be used to work with DNs.
.LP	.LP
Search filters to be passed to the search routines are to be	Search filters to be passed to the search routines are to be
constructed by hand and should conform to RFC 2254.	constructed by hand and should conform to RFC 2254 UTF\-8
	string representation.
.LP	.LP
LDAP URL are to be passed to routines are expected to conform	LDAP URL are to be passed to routines are expected to conform
to RFC 2255.	to RFC 2255 syntax. The
The
.BR ldap_url (3)	.BR ldap_url (3)
routines can be used to work with LDAP URLs.	routines can be used to work with LDAP URLs.
.SH DISPLAYING RESULTS	.SH DISPLAYING RESULTS
Line 148 synchronously bind to the directory	Line 147 synchronously bind to the directory
.SM ldap_unbind_ext(3)	.SM ldap_unbind_ext(3)
synchronously unbind from the LDAP server and close the connection	synchronously unbind from the LDAP server and close the connection
.TP	.TP
.SM ldap_unbind_ext_s(3)	.SM ldap_unbind(3) and ldap_unbind_s(3) are
equivalent to	equivalent to
.BR ldap_unbind_ext (3)	.BR ldap_unbind_ext (3)
.TP	.TP
Line 194 return number of entries in a search res	Line 193 return number of entries in a search res
.SM ldap_get_dn(3)	.SM ldap_get_dn(3)
extract the DN from an entry	extract the DN from an entry
.TP	.TP
.SM ldap_explode_dn(3)
convert a DN into its component parts (deprecated)
.TP
.SM ldap_explode_rdn(3)
convert an RDN into its component parts (deprecated)
.TP
.SM ldap_get_values_len(3)	.SM ldap_get_values_len(3)
return an attribute's values with lengths	return an attribute's values with lengths
.TP	.TP

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