LDAP: Programming Directory-Enabled Apps

by Timothy A. Howes

Book Overview

Two years ago, the Internet Engineering Task Force began studying directory protocols, searching for a solution to outdated protocols. That search prompted the creation of LDAP, the new protocol for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578700000
• ISBN13: 9781578700004
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent LDAP source

This is an excellent starter for LDAP client programming. It has a good reference section and good example code.

Enough To Get Started

This book contains all of the necessary information to write an LDAP application using the C programming language. This book covers the basics of LDAP directories, available LDAP libraries, and steps you through the basic LDAP API calls.Both the University of Michigan and Netscape libraries are covered, and the advantages/disadvantages of each. This book also breifly explains command line utilities, such as ldapsearch, that are useful for testing and debugging applications.The book contains a useful reference of the core LDAP APIs that I keep handy when I am programming. Another section I found useful pertains to LDAP and threading in applications. The threading section covers information that is very important when developing server applications using LDAP.

An excellent starter book in LDAP

Based on my recent personal experience: The book is worth every penny. It gets me going "from zero to sixty five in milliseconds" ! I had 10+ years of C prog experience but I had virtually zero LDAP knowledge. This book covers the important bases that I need to know to take over a SIMS/LDAP project that another engineer left off. Too bad the book does not include much information about SIMS.

LDAP!, I need Help !

This LDAP Book was a very helpful tool in seting up LDAP servers in Baton Rouge Its neat and has very good explainations. Mabe with the help of this book I can make Baton Rouge the LDAP capital of the World. The book could have been better so I just gave this book 4 Stars.

Best & Worse LDAP Book......It's the only one in Amazon.....

This is a reasonable book and it covers the mechanics of the C/API and the protocol itself well enough. It would be nice to some better real world examples, but you can derive them yourself. ( Perhaps a CD or a disk would be useful ) In the next version, I think Java and C++ coverage is mandatory.