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: