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Re: legacy ldap?
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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 10:55:52 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 2 Dec 2025, Patrick Monnerat via curl-library wrote:
>> If so, I'm curious to learn more on why and on what system(s).
>
> Yes: on OS/400 ILE. I do not have any knowledge of an OpenLDAP port to this
> platform.
Do you actually use it on that platform or are you just building for it? We
build it in CI as well it turns out.
> I don't use Windows myself for about 9 years, but at this time there was an
> OS-native support for LDAP that was usable with this code.
WinLDAP exists and that code builds to use it. But I don't know of anyone that
*uses* it.
> BTW: I don't think it's a "legacy" LDAP. I rather take it as an alternative,
> just like we have more than a single ssh library support.
I use the term legacy for this because this is the old, ancient even, way to
do LDAP. There's virtually no public documentation to be found online how this
API is supposed to work and the API is "lacking". It feels like yet another
one of those forgotten corners of the world that maybe we rather not stir up
too much...
A major challenge trying to find docs is that OpenLDAP has mostly the same
function names, so OpenLDAP search results easily shadow the legacy details.
Apple deprecated "legacy LDAP" in 2013, but it still seemingly works.
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 10:55:52 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 2 Dec 2025, Patrick Monnerat via curl-library wrote:
>> If so, I'm curious to learn more on why and on what system(s).
>
> Yes: on OS/400 ILE. I do not have any knowledge of an OpenLDAP port to this
> platform.
Do you actually use it on that platform or are you just building for it? We
build it in CI as well it turns out.
> I don't use Windows myself for about 9 years, but at this time there was an
> OS-native support for LDAP that was usable with this code.
WinLDAP exists and that code builds to use it. But I don't know of anyone that
*uses* it.
> BTW: I don't think it's a "legacy" LDAP. I rather take it as an alternative,
> just like we have more than a single ssh library support.
I use the term legacy for this because this is the old, ancient even, way to
do LDAP. There's virtually no public documentation to be found online how this
API is supposed to work and the API is "lacking". It feels like yet another
one of those forgotten corners of the world that maybe we rather not stir up
too much...
A major challenge trying to find docs is that OpenLDAP has mostly the same
function names, so OpenLDAP search results easily shadow the legacy details.
Apple deprecated "legacy LDAP" in 2013, but it still seemingly works.
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