NAME

       ldap_is_ldap_url, ldap_url_parse, ldap_free_urldesc - LDAP Uniform Resource Locator routines

LIBRARY

       OpenLDAP LDAP (libldap, -lldap)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <ldap.h>

       int ldap_is_ldap_url( const char *url )

       int ldap_url_parse( const char *url, LDAPURLDesc **ludpp )

       typedef struct ldap_url_desc {
           char *      lud_scheme;     /* URI scheme */
           char *      lud_host;       /* LDAP host to contact */
           int         lud_port;       /* port on host */
           char *      lud_dn;         /* base for search */
           char **     lud_attrs;      /* list of attributes */
           int         lud_scope;      /* a LDAP_SCOPE_... value */
           char *      lud_filter;     /* LDAP search filter */
           char **     lud_exts;       /* LDAP extensions */
           int         lud_crit_exts;  /* true if any extension is critical */
           /* may contain additional fields for internal use */
       } LDAPURLDesc;

       void ldap_free_urldesc( LDAPURLDesc *ludp );

DESCRIPTION

       These  routines  support  the use of LDAP URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) as detailed in RFC 4516.  LDAP
       URLs look like this:

         ldap://hostport/dn[?attrs[?scope[?filter[?exts]]]]

       where:
         hostport is a host name with an optional ":portnumber"
         dn is the search base
         attrs is a comma separated list of attributes to request
         scope is one of these three strings:
           base one sub (default=base)
         filter is filter
         exts are recognized set of LDAP and/or API extensions.

       Example:
         ldap://ldap.example.net/dc=example,dc=net?cn,sn?sub?(cn=*)

       URLs that are wrapped in angle-brackets and/or preceded by "URL:" are also tolerated.   Alternative  LDAP
       schemes such as ldaps:// and ldapi:// may be parsed using the below routines as well.

       ldap_is_ldap_url()  returns a non-zero value if url looks like an LDAP URL (as opposed to some other kind
       of URL).  It can be used as a quick check for an LDAP URL; the ldap_url_parse() routine should be used if
       a more thorough check is needed.

       ldap_url_parse() breaks down an LDAP URL passed in url into its component pieces.  If successful, zero is
       returned, an LDAP URL description is allocated, filled in, and ludpp is set to point to it.  If an  error
       occurs, a non-zero URL error code is returned.

       ldap_free_urldesc()  should  be  called  to free an LDAP URL description that was obtained from a call to
       ldap_url_parse().

SEE ALSO

       ldap(3)
       RFC 4516 <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4516.txt>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       OpenLDAP Software is  developed  and  maintained  by  The  OpenLDAP  Project  <http://www.openldap.org/>.
       OpenLDAP Software is derived from the University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.