LWP::Protocol::ldap(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    LWP::Protocol::ldap(3)

NAME

       LWP::Protocol::ldap - Provide LDAP support for LWP::UserAgent

SYNOPSIS

	 use LWP::UserAgent;

	 $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
	 $res = $ua->get('ldap://ldap.example.com/' .
			 'o=University%20of%20Michigan,c=US??sub?(cn=Babs%20Jensen)',
			  Accept => 'text/json'):

DESCRIPTION

       The LWP::Protocol::ldap module provides support for using ldap schemed URLs following RFC 4516 with LWP.  This module is a plug-in to the
       LWP protocol handling, so you don't use it directly.

       In addition to being used with LDAP URIs, LWP::Protocol::ldap also acts as the base class for its sibling modules LWP::Protocol::ldaps and
       LWP::Protocol::ldapi.

   Features
       HTTP methods supported

       LWP::Protocol::ldap implements the HTTP GET and HEAD methods.  They are mapped to the LDAP search operation,

       Response format

       Depending on the HTTP Accept header provided by the user agent, LWP::Protocol::ldap can answer the requests in one of the following
       formats:

       DSML
	   When the HTTP Accept header contains the "text/dsml" MIME type, the response is sent as DSMLv1.

       JSON
	   When the HTTP Accept header contains the "text/json" MIME type, the response is sent as JSON.  For this to work the JSON Perl module
	   needs to be installed.

       LDIF
	   When the HTTP Accept header contains the "text/ldif" MIME type, the response is sent in LDIFv1 format.

       HTML
	   In case no HTTP Accept header has been sent or none of the above MIME types can be detected, and the x-format extension has not been
	   provided either, the response is sent using HTML markup in a 2-column table format (roughly modeled on LDIF).

       As an alternative to sending an HTTP Accept header, LWP::Protocol::ldap also accepts the "x-format" extension

       Example:

	ldap://ldap.example.com/o=University%20of%20Michigan,c=US??sub?(cn=Babs%20Jensen)?x-format=dsml

       TLS support

       For ldap and ldapi URIs, the module implements the "x-tls" extension that switches the LDAP connection to TLS using a call of the start_tls
       method.

       Example:

	ldap://ldap.example.com/o=University%20of%20Michigan,c=US??sub?(cn=Babs%20Jensen)?x-tls=1

       Note: In the above example, ideally giving "x-tls" should be sufficient, but unfortunately the parser in URI::ldap has a little flaw.

       Authorization

       Usually the connection is done anonymously, but if the HTTP Authorization header is provided with credentials for HTTP Basic authorization,
       the credentials given in that header will be used to do a simple bind to the LDAP server.

SEE ALSO

       LWP::Protocol::ldaps, LWP::Protocol::ldapi

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Graham Barr, 2012 Peter Marschall.  All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it
       and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.16.2							    2012-09-20						    LWP::Protocol::ldap(3)