RE: Directory enabled web server anyone?

["Arnold Shore" <ashore@stginc.com>]

Here's another (me) with similar interests.

I've seen more than one large application that provides enterprise directory
information but is based on a relational DB engine.  I can't help but think
that one based on an LDAP base would provide the need functionality in a
more general and natural manner.

Please keep us all informed.

Arnold Shore
Annapolis, MD

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
[mailto:owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Bernard Gardner
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 4:44 AM
To: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Directory enabled web server anyone?


I've been wondering lately if anyone has built, or is building
directory enabled applications in a serious way?

I know that a lot of work has gone into storing user information
in LDAP directories, and using that information to route mail,
and authenticate requests for web pages and the like.

I've also been reading up on Directory Enabled Networking,
where network infrastructure devices (routers and switches
and the like) will perhaps one day be able to gather their
configuration data via LDAP.

What I'm interested in, is other systems that are fully configured
from an LDAP directory. Say, a web server that on starting up
needs only to know the name of its configuration server, and
some credentials with which to bind. Which can then accept
http requests, use LDAP to figure out how to resolve the request,
probably with some kind of caching for performance, and then serve
up a response. The information held in LDAP might include, the
domain name of the web server, the location of the data to be
served, access control rules and file name extension to MIME
type mappings. Basically everything that the web server needs
to know to perform its function, thus placing all of the configuration
for web services in one central place (possibly replicated and
distributed).

So, does anyone have any pointers, ideas, thoughts on this they'd
like to share?

Bernard.
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