Re: ldaplib and LDAPv3

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hi,

	i've just populated the ldaplib subtree of the cvs with my code.
it is still alpha, beware! but, togheter with the new _ldap module, it
works. i didn't commit lappo, the ldap browser. as i told you before,
david, we plan to host its page on our website (they pay me to code what i
want, but they want a little publicity back...)

	anyway, i begun to study/use ldap only 1 month ago, so comments
and criticism is not only wellcome, but needed!

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Michael Ströder's letter:
> Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
>
> I will have a closer look at it as soon as it appears in the CVS.
> 
> > > I asked about LDAPv3 two days ago.
> > 
> > i am sorry but i don't know about v3. any urls?
> 
> RFC2251..2256. (I would not claim having read through all of this.)
> 
> What IS really of interest that you can retrieve all object classes,
> attributes and syntaxes with their OIDs existing on a particular
> LDAP host by reading a schema entry from the root DSE => you don't
> have to configure the LDAP client to know all the schema
> definitions. Unfortunately LDAPv3 servers does not provide this
> functionality to LDAPv2 clients.

i don't understand very well. can you elaborate or give an example? 

> Actually what I'd like to have is a class library which has base
> classes for syntaxes, attributes, object classes (inherited object
> classes in inherited Python classes?) and entries.

ok. give a look at my code and then let's start hacking. as i said
i'll be very happy is someone with more experience with ldap than me
can help.

> A LDAP client should be able to handle the schema no matter if it's
> retrieved via LDAPv3 from the LDAP host or from local configuration
> (in the case of LDAPv2 access). I plan to rewrite many parts of
> http://web2ldap.de and that's what I need it for...

looking at it now...

ciao,
federico

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