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@@ -8,6 +8,21 @@ +Daniel (31 October 2005) +- Vilmos Nebehaj improved libcurl's LDAP abilities: + + The LDAP code in libcurl can't handle LDAP servers of LDAPv3 nor binary + attributes in LDAP objects. So, I made a quick patch to address these + problems. + + The solution is simple: if we connect to an LDAP server, first try LDAPv3 + (which is the preferred protocol as of now) and then fall back to LDAPv2. + In case of binary attributes, we first convert them to base64, just like the + openldap client does. It uses ldap_get_values_len() instead of + ldap_get_values() to be able to retrieve binary attributes correctly. I + defined the necessary LDAP macros in lib/ldap.c to be able to compile + libcurl without the presence of libldap + Daniel (27 October 2005) - Nis Jorgensen filed bug report #1338648 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1338648) which really is more of a |