Friedrich Locke wrote:

Hi folks,

i would like to write a library that implements ldap client connection to the server, as usual, the default routines:

For simple ops this isn't a big task, but when you add referrals to the mix it gets a bit messier.

Here's some design points to keep in mind so you don't make the same mistakes as current libldap does.

http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/LDAP_C_API

connect bind search unbind etc ...

I wonder if there is a documentation showing how data is encoded with asn.1 ber encoding.

Rules for BER are in X.690. You can download the latest spec for free from the ITU-T.

http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.690/en