Re: Looking for an LDAP DLL for MS Windows

Mike Newell <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> Fri, 15 October 1993 14:10 UTC

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From: Mike Newell <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov>
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To: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk, BORA@ct.si.cs.boeing.com
Subject: Re: Looking for an LDAP DLL for MS Windows

I'm, not sure if I already replied to this, but...

>  From osi-ds-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk Fri Oct  8 14:27:21 1993
>  
>  Does anyone have the following:
>  
>  An LDAP DLL that would work with the WINSOCK.DLL

It's on terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu in the X500 directory tree.  There
is a precompiled LDAP DLL as well as source that compiles (pretty
easily, but not trivally) under Visual C++.

>  Calling documentation for the above

I wrote a small app called "piXie" to provide a directory interface, and
I can attest to the fact that the available documentation, which consists
of a set of man pages, is pretty weak.  You will need to reference the
source quite a bit in your programming.  I had planned to put together
a q&d programmer's guide, but I don't seem to have much time lately...

Especially problematic is (1) the 64Kb segment limit implies you can't
get replies greater than 64K (actually, you can get them - they just
cause General Protection Faults.  Sigh...), and (2) when to free memory
and how isn't always clear.

>  
>  I am looking at running this on Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups, and 
>  Windows NT.  The NT systems are both Intel and DEC Alpha systems, so if 
>  source is available, it would make it easier if I need to recompile.

The supplied DLL runs under both Windows 3.1 and NT on my 486.  I don't 
have an Alpha, so I don't know if it runs there...

Mike Newell
NASA Advanced Network Applications