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Ancient|
Overview
Release Date: 2001-01-28
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Added input field for search root in connect input form.
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Check if user trys to do ModRDN on empty DN.
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Try to locate a LDAP host for a DN or DNS domain with various methods.
See Internet Draft
"A Taxonomy of Methods for LDAP Clients Finding Servers"
on
LDAPEXT page.
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New parameter dir_listing_allowed for HTTP server
(stand-alone mode).
Release Date: 2001-01-18
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Code cleaning:
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More clean-ups of exception handling in w2lhandler.py.
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Do a separate DNS lookup of LDAP host name which
leads to a cleaner exception handling and error
message being more meaningful to user.
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Fixed displaying the DN of deleted entries. The parent DN
was displayed instead of the entry's DN.
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Solely use the new string methods of Python 2.0 and
abandoned importing string module whereever possible.
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Fixed displaying
cRLDistributionPoints.distributionPoint.fullName
as proper URL link when displaying HTML.
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Bug fixes:
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Display empty DN as - World - in status line.
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Fixed building modify list when LDAP server is handling
attribute types case-respecting.
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Function ldapbase.SearchTree() properly returns
list of Unicode objects now. Affects recursive deletes.
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Fixed missing parameter when raising
cgiforms.formContentLengthException.
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Somewhat fixed handling of creating modlist's
with binary attributes involved.
Release Date: 2000-12-20
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Bug fixes:
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Wrong regex pattern for select lists in cgiforms.py fixed.
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Some select fields did not use the right charset.
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Fixed displaying displayName attribute.
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Fixed ldapbase.SplitRDN() (affected modrdn command).
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Default of modrdn input field was displayed as HTML.
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Proper handling of UTF-8 characters in
namingContexts attribute of RootDSE.
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Handling of form data more robust.
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Corrected handling of RDNs when DN has only one component.
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Avoid any LDAP operations before first bind.
Release Date: 2000-12-02
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Nice displaying of certificate and CRL attributes including certificate
extensions if at least sub-module asn1 of
Pisces
is installed on the system (automatically detected).
Credits go to Jeremy Hylton for his work on the ASN.1 parser and helping me understanding it.
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New parameter web2ldapcnf.hosts.ldap_def['timeout']
for specifying a timeout (seconds) for search operations.
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Login not longer mandantory at beginning of session.
User can explictly bind after connecting to server.
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Avoid making a LDAP connection when not necessary
(e.g. when displaying add form).
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Displayed LDAP URLs are all URL-quoted now and handling of LDAP URLs
stored in attribute is more robust and smarter.
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Some efforts were done to browse global directories
in a reasonable manner.
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Simple support for direct use of LDAP URLs (short hack):
[web2ldap URL]/ldapurl?[LDAP URL]
will display the entry or do a search.
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Gracefully handling of exceptions which make a re-login
of a user necessary: ldap.INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS, ldap.INVALID_CREDENTIALS,
ldap.INAPPROPRIATE_AUTH etc. User can re-login and retry command.
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Smarter handling of LDAPv3 referrals: Instead of relying on the
referral handling of the underlying lib the referral exceptions
are caught and the user is prompted for new bind DN / password
for connecting to the referred host and repeat the action before
the referral was received.
Credits go to Konstantin Chuguev
for patching python-ldap to do correct error handling
when result() method is called.
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Compability issues:
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web2ldap now makes use of the new Unicode features introduced
in recent Python versions because the handling of different character
encoding is faster and cleaner.
=> You have to upgrade your Python installation at least to
version 2.0.
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For cleaner exception handling python-ldap prior to 1.8
is not longer supported since the ldap.LDAPError
exception base class is used now. This affects mainly
the Windows platform since I do not know of pre-compiled
python-ldap version later than 1.5. Feel free to contribute!
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Moved parameters web2ldapcnf.misc.search_attrsonly
and web2ldapcnf.misc.search_attrs
to web2ldapcnf.hosts.ldap_def. You have to adjust
your local configuration files!
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Code cleaning:
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All LDAP-related strings are internally handled as
Unicode string types.
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Handle more input field stuff with the fine cgiforms module.
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LDAP session objects. First step towards session handling
with pickeable session objects.
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Simplified many function calls into module w2lcore.
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All exception handling of LDAP errors is done in module
w2lhandler except exceptions which needs special
handling in a specific context.
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Bug fixes:
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Correct handling of DNs with quoted comma.
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Some code was too case-sensitive with
handling attribute type names.
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Fixed some compability issues with Python 1.6+.
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Fixed some vCard issues. Still not perfect but usable most times.
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Correct handling of special characters when putting together
LDAP filter string (RFC 2254).
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Fixed typo in main exception handling.