On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 14:31 +1200, Martin van den Nieuwelaar wrote: > Hi People, > > I'm writing an application using Qt and wish to use the openldap > library > within my program to query an LDAP server. I have been searching > for > instructions on using the library from a client point of view but > have > not been successful. I tried using the man pages and I think I'm > part > way there but have reached an impasse on the correct way (or any way > at > all for that matter) to extract the results from an LDAPMessage > *. I > have an example search working using the command line program > ldap_search, so the next thought is to look at the source for > ldap_search and see what calls it makes to figure things out. This > somehow seems like the wrong way to be going about things however. > > Is there something equivalent for openldap to the documentation for > libcurl, https://ec.haxx.se/libcurl-easyhandle.html ? If there is > that > would be brilliant. > > I also tried searching for 3rd party howtos and tutorials and there > are > a few of those but invariably they use now deprecated library calls. > > Regards, > > -Martin > >
The libcurl library supports LDAP. Howard Chu even wrote a new LDAP implementation for it back in 2010 to make it fully asynchronous. Is there a good reason not to use it?
