As https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366101(v=vs.85).aspx describe spaces should not be in start or at the end of username but they can be inside the username. So please check my solution for it.

According to https://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc4513#section-5.1.2 LDAP client should always check before bind whether a password is an empty value. There are at least one LDAP implementation which does not return error if you try to bind with DN set and empty password - AD.