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Commit 63cd0d60 authored by Sergei Nikulov's avatar Sergei Nikulov Committed by GitHub
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LDAP: documentation update per #878 changes (#1506)

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*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
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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
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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:
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