NAME

       URI::ldap - LDAP Uniform Resource Locators

SYNOPSIS

         use URI;

         $uri = URI->new("ldap:$uri_string");
         $dn     = $uri->dn;
         $filter = $uri->filter;
         @attr   = $uri->attributes;
         $scope  = $uri->scope;
         %extn   = $uri->extensions;

         $uri = URI->new("ldap:");  # start empty
         $uri->host("ldap.itd.umich.edu");
         $uri->dn("o=University of Michigan,c=US");
         $uri->attributes(qw(postalAddress));
         $uri->scope('sub');
         $uri->filter('(cn=Babs Jensen)');
         print $uri->as_string,"\n";

DESCRIPTION

       "URI::ldap" provides an interface to parse an LDAP URI into its constituent parts and also
       to build a URI as described in RFC 2255.

METHODS

       "URI::ldap" supports all the generic and server methods defined by URI, plus the
       following.

       Each of the following methods can be used to set or get the value in the URI. The values
       are passed in unescaped form.  None of these return undefined values, but elements without
       a default can be empty.  If arguments are given, then a new value is set for the given
       part of the URI.

       $uri->dn( [$new_dn] )
           Sets or gets the Distinguished Name part of the URI.  The DN identifies the base
           object of the LDAP search.

       $uri->attributes( [@new_attrs] )
           Sets or gets the list of attribute names which are returned by the search.

       $uri->scope( [$new_scope] )
           Sets or gets the scope to be used by the search. The value can be one of "base", "one"
           or "sub". If none is given in the URI then the return value defaults to "base".

       $uri->_scope( [$new_scope] )
           Same as scope(), but does not default to anything.

       $uri->filter( [$new_filter] )
           Sets or gets the filter to be used by the search. If none is given in the URI then the
           return value defaults to "(objectClass=*)".

       $uri->_filter( [$new_filter] )
           Same as filter(), but does not default to anything.

       $uri->extensions( [$etype => $evalue,...] )
           Sets or gets the extensions used for the search. The list passed should be in the form
           etype1 => evalue1, etype2 => evalue2,... This is also the form of list that is
           returned.

SEE ALSO

       <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2255>

AUTHOR

       Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

       Slightly modified by Gisle Aas to fit into the URI distribution.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1998 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you
       can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.