Does anyone have experience doing ASN.1 encoding and decoding (ASN.1 is a method of writing machine-independent stuctured data into a byte stream, such as a socket)? I'm doing a simple program that will speak native LDAP wire protocol (a very simple protocol, really) and I need some pointers on a good library (although I found a nice gnu one), how to do the syntax file, etc. Shot in the dark, I know. I found a good gnu library to do it, but I need to supply a syntax file to describe the structure. I've build one by cutting and pasting from the RFC, and it seems to compile but there are a few things I didn't know, so I just put in some dummy stuff (headers, mainly, that have nothing to do with the stucture itself). The ASN file processor likes the file, so I'll have to see if it works. Probably greek to most of you. The nice thing about ASN.1 encoding is that once you process your message, you have a nice structured way of accessing the data (kind of like a compact binary version of XML) by named attributes.
Anyway, I've embarked on a simple, yet powerful project that some of you will be interested in regarding LDAP and giving it more capabilites to be more of a NDS-type thing (access to non-ldap objects such as the file system, etc). Give me a few weeks and I'll post some more cryptic stuff. ;) Michael PS If nothing I said made any sense at all in this message, I'll blame that on it being 1 am. -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
