RFC DRAFT May 1997 3 . URL Definition An LDAP URL

LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, defined in [1], [2] and [3]. This document describes a format for an LDAP Uniform Resource Locator. The format describes an LDAP search operation to perform to retrieve information from an LDAP directory. This document replaces RFC 1959. It updates the LDAP URL format for version 3 of LDAP. This document also defines a second URL scheme prefix for LDAP running over the TLS protocol defined in [6].