Re: (ITS#5612) Contributing An Overlay which Submits Modification in LDAP to a Web-Page!

[hyc@symas.com]

ando@sys-net.it wrote:
> fawadlateef@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Contributing an overlay which submits modification in LDAP to a web-page through
>> libcurl.
>
> Thanks for the contribution.  Without having looked too much into the
> solution you designed, however, I believe you moved too much effort at
> the DSA side.  An alternative approach to your problem consists in using
> the RFC4533 LDAP Sync to design a client that is persistently returned
> any change in data matching a search request, letting the client adapt
> the results into the desired form for the web page.  The client could be
> easily embedded in a web server, e.g. using the scripting capabilities
> that most web servers have, or even coded using those scripting
> capabilities, provide they support the capability to implement the LDAP
> extensions used by RFC 4533.

Actually, even without RFC4533, all that's needed is to use slapo-accesslog 
and let the web server query the log DB whenever a user accesses the page.
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