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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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[LDAP servers] [Web browsers] [Operating systems] [Web servers] [PKI products]

LDAP Servers

OpenLDAP 1.x
Open Source implementation of LDAPv2. Use is deprecated today.
OpenLDAP 2.x
Open Source reference implementation of LDAPv3. Check it out!
Netscape Directory Server 4.x and 6.x
web2ldap even supports some extra features for these.
iPlanet 5.x, SunONE 5.x Directory Server
web2ldap even supports some extra features for these.
Novell eDirectory 8.x
With sub-tree renaming, subordinate flag and some other neat features. Some odds in sub schema of older versions.
Lotus Domino LDAP R4.5x and 4.6x
Sometimes behaviour of this LDAP server was very weird making it almost unusable. LDAPv2 if I remember correctly.
Lotus Domino LDAP R5.x and R6.x (sometimes weird)
Most times it works quite well. Persistent connections are dropped very fast - depends on the configuration I guess. web2ldap contains a work-around for the null-byte terminated string of the namingContexts attribute in Domino/LDAP's RootDSE.
MS Active Directory
web2ldap displays the GUID as active LDAP URL links. Various work-arounds were added to handle the broken sub schema:
Siemens DirX
Works just fine.
Innosoft Distributed Directory Server (IDDS)
At the moment only read-only tests were done.
Critical Path InJoin 4.0
It's a snap. With sub-tree renaming, subordinate flag, etc.
Syntegra
Read-only tests on a public address book server worked. Not sure which type and version though.
IBM Directory Server 5.1
Simply works. With subordinate flags, etc.

Web Browsers

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Netscape Communicator 4.x
Chokes on rendering some CSS rules. CSS files shipped with web2ldap distribution uses some tricks found in hide CSS from browsers.
Mozilla
Mozilla 1.x has very good CSS support.
Konqueror
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).
DILLO!
Very fast HTML rendering and very small! Unfortunately currently no support for UTF-8 Unicode encoding.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Support for CSS depends very much on the version used.
Opera
Commercial browser. Aims to be fast and small. Also very good CSS support.
Amaya
W3C's reference browser.
lynx
A text-mode browser.
w3m
Another text-mode browser capable of handling tables and displaying images (if the terminal allows it).
StarOffice
Built-in browser of the StarOffice application suite.

Operating Systems

Linux
Please do not use outdated RPM packages...
Windows 32
Sucessfully tested with Mauro's new python-ldap build.
FreeBSD
Solaris 2.8 and 2.9
You can grab some of the packages needed from www.sunfreeware.com.

Web Servers

Apache HTTP Server
I don't have to write any explanation about this one...
lighttpd
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 Dir/X 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.
RSA Keon CA
This product ships with a pretty ancient LDAPv2 server. Last time I checked it worked to display userCertificate attribute which is stored in old {ASN.1} style.

Negative List

Unfortunately web2ldap cannot work with the following misbehaving software:


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