Re: Need a steer...

[John Lederer <johnl@IBM.Net>]

Thanks.  In this case I have no control over the browser end. Right now the ldap
server returns a default web page to a browser enquiry.  How does it do that, so
that I can intercept the web page creation mechanism and modify its behaviour?

John

David J N Begley wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, John Lederer wrote:
>
> > I would like to control the data that is sent back to a web browser when
> > it does a ldap url enquiry, i.e. ldap//anldapserver.com/uid=joe . Anybody
> > have an idea how this is usally done?  i would like to send back a
> > formatted web page with some of our data.
>
> The first question to ask would be how does the LDAP server know it is
> receiving a request from a Web browser instead of a "normal" LDAP client
> (since they're both just speaking the same protocol);  if you can't
> distinguish between the connection types (as I doubt you can) then you can't
> send back non-LDAP information over the LDAP protocol to a Web browser.
>
> The "usual way" is not to use Web browsers to make direct LDAP queries, but
> have them go to a Web page/script which handles all the LDAP interaction, and
> formats the return response.
>
> Cheers..
>
> dave