Have you ever wondered what exactly goes into LDAP requests and responses? Have you ever wanted to know what LDAP messages look like as they’re transferred between clients and servers? Have you had the opportunity to admire just how sleek and elegant the ASN.1 Basic Encoding Rules encoding can be? Then look no further.

I’ve created an LDAPv3 Wire Protocol Reference that provides an in-depth look at the encoding for all types of LDAP messages. It covers the complete encoding for all types of LDAPv3 requests and responses, including annotated examples and all the ASN.1 BER that you should need to understand those encodings.

This reference guide will be included in the documentation for the next release of the UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java (and you can get it now in that form by checking out and building the LDAP SDK from the GitHub project), but it’s also available online here.