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Re: Public LDAP Servers
Jon & list,
Thanks.
> I found a good list of public servers at:
>
> http://www.emailman.com/ldap/public.html
I'm getting the sinking feeling that there's something I just don't "get". Both this list of services and the web portal you created are email address lookup applications. I want to browse the hierarchy from the top down. Is this possible? Is anybody using LDAP in a production environment for anything other than email addresses?
The LDAP-Express site has an "advanced options: LDAP Base" entry field, but provides no suggestions. Now I understand that the search perameters can be entered there in the form "key=target, key2=target2", but how do I know what to enter? Is there some sort of convention for these keys?
I admit that I am a complete n00b, but I need to get started with this stuff and the online resources I have found so far are not helping with what should be a simple issue (connecting to public servers). Any pointers would be great.
> If you just want to search a directory, Mozilla makes a good client :)
Could you expand on this? Do you mean using a web adapter/interface for LDAP, like the one you wrote?
> http://www.mentata.com/ldaphttp/examples/bigten/
Thanks. I'll take a look at your code.
Also, I'm not really looking to store contact information, addresses, etc. in a directory. I am more interested in the storage and retrieval of terminologies. Consider, for example, a taxonomy of birds or anatomy, or a set of legal or medical definitions. Does it make sense to store this sort of (hierarchical) data in an LDAP directory? If so, are there any public repositories of this sort availble?
Thanks again.
- Matt Munz (mattmunz@email.com)
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Roberts <jon@mentata.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 10:27:33 -0600
To: Matthew Munz <mattmunz@email.com>
Subject: Re: Public LDAP Servers
> Matthew Munz wrote:
> > I am a Java Devleloper and a LDAP beginner. To get familiar with LDAP, I'd like to simply use an LDAP client to browse a public LDAP server. Google returned a few lists of servers, but I am unable to browse any of them using the LDAP client I downloaded, JXBrowser. Could someone on this list provide me with a known good combination of client + public server that I can use (JXBrowser preferred for the client).
>
> I found a good list of public servers at:
>
> http://www.emailman.com/ldap/public.html
>
> If you just want to search a directory, Mozilla makes a good client :)
> Browsing public servers, especially big ones, can be problematic because
> most (sensible) administrators put size and lookthrough limits on their
> data.
>
> If you want to see an example of Java code that searches public servers,
> may I recommend my own:
>
> http://www.mentata.com/ldaphttp/examples/bigten/
>
> Jon Roberts
> www.mentata.com
>
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