perl-ldap - A Client interface to LDAP servers

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This release is a development release to obtain feedback. Any part of this
release could be subject to change.

The development of the distribution is discussed on a mailing list at
perl-ldap@mail.med.cornell.edu. to subscribe send a message to
perl-ldap-request@mail.med.cornell.edu. with the word subscribe in the subject
and body. 
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Copyright (c) 1997-1998 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

For the latest information see http://www.connect.net/gbarr/perl-ldap/

QUICK START GUIDE:

    perl-ldap uses the following modules/distributions.

	Convert::BER - required
	libwww-perl  - optional, needed for URL parsing
	Digest::MD5  - optional, needed for SASL CRAM-MD5 auth

    First ensure the above modules/distributions are installed then
    build/test/install Net::LDAP by doing

            perl Makefile.PL
            make
            make test
            make install

    Several modules in the distribution contain documentation. Once installed
    you can use the 'perldoc Net::LDAP' command to obtain the documentation.
    This documentation will contain pointers to the other modules.

Many things from the previous release have been depricated in this release.
These are

  ->ldapbind() is now ->bind()
  
  Error constants now start with LDAP_ instead of ldap, this is for
  consistency with other libraries
  
  ->read_ldif and ->ldif methods on Net::LDAP::Entry objects has been replaced
  by the Net::LDAP::LDIF module

  option names to methods are now passed in all lowercase without the leading -
  
  ->get_attribute in Net::LDAP::Entry has been replaced by ->get

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NOTE: Everything that has been depricated will be removed when V1.00 is
released, but who knows when that will be.
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