LDAP and HTTP servers, and other software tested so far
web2ldap is known to work smoothly with the software/platforms mentioned
here. If a software is not listed here does not mean it is not compatible
unless it is listed in the negative list.
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to contribute to these compability notes.
Please note that support for LDAPv2 connections was dropped
in release 1.1.5 since this
is considered historic since a quite while now
(see also RFC 3494).
With sub-tree renaming, subordinate flag and some other neat features. Last version tested: 8.8SP5.
Some odds in sub schema (non-unique OIDs) can lead to serious interop issues.
Lotus Domino LDAP R5.x, R6.x and R7.0.x (sometimes weird)
Most times it works quite well. Persistent connections are
dropped very fast - depends on the version I guess. web2ldap
contains a work-around for the null-byte terminated string
of the namingContexts attribute in Domino/LDAP's RootDSE.
Recent tests were done with 7.0.3.
MS Active Directory
Tested with W2K, W2K3 and W2K8.
Various work-arounds were added to handle the broken
sub schema in W2K:
Handling of non-LDAPv3-compliant LDAP syntaxes in
Windows 2000 AD (Windows 2003 AD does it right).
Attribute objectClass explicitly added
to required attribute set when building entry data
input forms.
Direct links to schema object entries from sub schema
viewer.
Siemens DirX
Works just fine. Added support for searching the administrative
sub entries.
CA eTrust Directory
Works just fine. Release 8.1 used as reference server for implementing
the viewer for DIT structure rules and name forms in web2ldap.
Innosoft Distributed Directory Server (IDDS)
Only read-only tests were done and the product is not available anymore
for years.
Critical Path InJoin 4.0 and Directory Server 4.2
Works without problems.
Syntegra
Read-only tests on a public address book server worked.
Not sure which type and version though.
The web browser and file manager of the KDE project:
Note the input forms enclosed in <fieldset> were not displayed
by older versions.
(see KDE bug #44643 RESOLVED).
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Support for CSS depends very much on the version used. The modern
CSS files shipped with web2ldap likely does not work with IE 6.0
and before. Some minor CSS glitches with IE 7.0.
You have to spawn the web2ldap FastCGI process in a separate
startup script with spawn-fcgi.
PKI products
Entrust Authority
Works fine with directory structure and content written by
Entrust Authority6.0 (tested with Siemens DirX and CP InJoin).
Displays encryption certificate in attribute userCertificate
just fine. The Entrust specific attributes (e.g. roaming profiles) can be
downloaded as binary data.
Negative List
Unfortunately web2ldap is known not to work with the following
misbehaving software or the software is ancient and thus could not be tested
with recent web2ldap releases for years:
Netmeeting
Many Netmeeting directory servers (most times DNS alias
starting with ILS) contain invalid NUL-terminated strings in some
rootDSE attributes. This can't be worked around easily without
breaking LDAP implementation.
I also did not find a ILS server which allows non-exact searching
or any other useful stuff for general LDAP use.
Netscape Communicator 4.x
Chokes on rendering modern CSS rules. CSS files shipped with
web2ldap distribution likely does not work with this anymore.
Anyway you should not use this ancient browser anymore. If you still
have to use it consider writing your own simple CSS file.