Before You Read This Book

This book assumes that you are a software engineer with a knowledge of C/C++, and that you have a general understanding of the following:

• The Internet and the World Wide Web

• Calendaring concepts

• LDAP

• RFC 2445, RFC 2446, RFC 2447

  These RFC's describe in detail the format and definition for times, strings, parameters, and so forth used in WCAP commands.

  The RFC’s can be found at the IETF web site:

  • http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

  • http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2446.txt

  • http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2447.txt