I got back last night, after a somewhat hectic Flybe.com flight (long story).
I really enjoyed the
conference,
my first time speaking at one, bit nervous, but it can only get better
Tuesday:
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It is true that
Poorly written LDAP[?] code can really affect your Portal,
Suretec have seen it a few times:
A programmer who hadn't had much exposure to LDAP decided it best to do a base level search, for example, using
ldapsearch:
CODE:
ldapsearch -x -b 'dc=suretecsystems,dc=com' '(objectclass=*)' -H ldap[?]://127.0.0.1
he retrieved *everything*, then did all the searching/filtering etc. locally in the client! What's the point of a Directory Server!?!
Our partners Symas have also talked about similar encounters, mainly with Sendmail.
It all comes down to the level of LDAP understanding a programmer has.
Or could it actually be the Directory Server implementation, namely Oracle Internet Directory (OID)?
I know OpenLDAP wouldn't slow an app down like this, because it's very fast..very very fast
