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diff --git a/docs/FEATURES b/docs/FEATURES
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@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ FOOTNOTES
*1 = requires OpenSSL, GnuTLS, NSS, yassl, axTLS, PolarSSL, WinSSL (native
Windows), Secure Transport (native iOS/OS X) or GSKit (native IBM i)
- *2 = requires OpenLDAP
+ *2 = requires OpenLDAP or WinLDAP
*3 = requires a GSS-API implementation (such as Heimdal or MIT Kerberos) or
SSPI (native Windows)
*4 = requires a GSS-API implementation, however, only Windows SSPI is
diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL
index 0ea3e61f4..330f99aea 100644
--- a/docs/MANUAL
+++ b/docs/MANUAL
@@ -815,6 +815,10 @@ LDAP
If you have installed the OpenLDAP library, curl can take advantage of it
and offer ldap:// support.
+ On Windows, curl will use WinLDAP from Platform SDK by default.
+
+ Default protocol version used by curl is LDAPv3. LDAPv2 will be used as
+ fallback mechanism in case if LDAPv3 will fail to connect.
LDAP is a complex thing and writing an LDAP query is not an easy task. I do
advise you to dig up the syntax description for that elsewhere. One such
@@ -830,6 +834,20 @@ LDAP
If I want the same info in HTML format, I can get it by not using the -B
(enforce ASCII) flag.
+ You also can use authentication when accessing LDAP catalog:
+
+ curl -u user:passwd "ldap://ldap.frontec.se/o=frontec??sub?mail=*"
+ curl "ldap://user:passwd@ldap.frontec.se/o=frontec??sub?mail=*"
+
+ By default, if user and password provided, OpenLDAP/WinLDAP will use basic
+ authentication. On Windows you can control this behavior by providing
+ one of --basic, --ntlm or --digest option in curl command line
+
+ curl --ntlm "ldap://user:passwd@ldap.frontec.se/o=frontec??sub?mail=*"
+
+ On Windows, if no user/password specified, auto-negotiation mechanism will
+ be used with current logon credentials (SSPI/SPNEGO).
+
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Curl reads and understands the following environment variables: