web2ldap - Changes

Release Date: 2000-08-02

Changes since 0.7.8:

• Fixed missing import of module ldif in w2lhandler.py.
• Pass only ldif.ldif_pattern to TextAreaClass.__init__()

Release Date: 2000-07-30

Changes since 0.7.7:

• Wrapper script for running as persistent PythonHandler under the control of the Apache module mod_python.
• Use gzip-encoding for saving network bandwidth if client has sent Accept-Encoding: gzip in the HTTP header.
• Improved HTTP header data. Especially date format is now conform to RFC1123.
• New parameter standalone.run_username for defining the username for setuid() when started as root.
• New parameter standalone.debug_log for setting path name of debugging log file. Redirect sys.stderr and sys.stdout to debug log if running detached.
• Fixed bug with being too case-sensitive with LDIF data and input fields when modifying entries.
• Relaxed DN regex checking for compability with quoted data in RDN-components.
• separated HTTP server module (independent of web2ldap now)
• Updated documentation and web pages. Still not really complete...

Release Date: 2000-07-06

Changes since 0.7.6:

• Handle parsing of wrong LDIF data gracefully.
• Use os.fork() to detach from console if running on Posix platform.
• If threading is turned off the ForkingMixIn is used to run a forking server when running under Posix-platform.
• Fixed bug: Changing objectClass attribute of an entry works again. New object classes were ignored.
• Splitted calling the CGI-BIN and calling the stand-alone server into two different scripts cgi-bin/web2ldap.py and sbin/web2ldap.py to make a clean separation for users and package maintainers.
• Dropped support for form parameter ldap_url. Was not used and made coding much more complicated.
• Code cleaning:
  • All form.add() method calls are done in module w2lhandler.py now.
  • Cleaned up parameter handling.
  • Handling of search form parameters in single form field objects. Should be slightly faster.
• Configuration module web2ldapcnf.py is divided into the following sub-modules:
  • misc.py: various options
  • standalone.py: options only needed when running as stand-alone web server
  • hosts.py: specific parameters for different LDAP hosts
  • cgibin.py: options only needed when running via CGI-BIN interface under the control of a web server

Release Date: 2000-06-18

Changes since 0.7.5:

• Partial display of search result table with ->> and <<- buttons for previous and next page. The benefit is a better usability because there's not so much HTML data sent to the browser.
  Due to limitations of LDAP the search results are retrieved completely from the LDAP server up to the last result index displayed. E.g. displaying search results 201 to 210 means sending the results 1 to 200 to /dev/null.
• Moved configuration files to separate directory (like /etc/web2ldap) for easy producing of Linux-packages. Splitted former configuration file module web2ldapcnf.py into directory module web2ldapcnf/ containing modules all.py and standalone.py.
• New parameter web2ldapcnf.input_maxfieldlen for specifying maximum length of input data for attributes.
• Base search form for very simple searches (default now). The search form can be customized with a HTML template file.
• Select base, advanced or expert search form with select list of search button.
• Search results produce handy URL links for LDAP search URLs and mailto-links for group mailings.
• Alternate output formats (DSML, LDIF, pretty-printable) are chosen from a select list with one button now.
• Content negotiation with HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGES for serving multi-language variants of template files (only search form and read templates by now).
• SSL-enabled when running as a stand-alone gateway (credits go to Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@post1.com> for providing the module M2Crypto). This means a lot of more parameters to configure. ;-) Please do not ask me how to create server certs etc. The OpenSSL and mod_ssl docs might be a good start for learning about this topic. ;-)
• Improved HTML output (lower-cased, checked with tidy) - first little steps to XHTML.
• Send \r\n in HTTP header in platform independent manner.
• Bunch of small fixes. (still recovering from errors with the new module structure introduced in 0.7.3...).
• The semantics of the parameter search_attr has changed. It represents the LDAP attribute name now (was userfriendly name before). Incompatible changes in configuration (see parameters web2ldapcnf.search_attr and web2ldapcnf.ldap_knownattr!!!
• Parameter search_maxhits in ldap_def dictionary abandoned.
• If no IP addr is given with option -l the stand-alone mode binds to INADDR_ANY for listening on all network devices available.
• Simple address-based access control with client's IP address in stand-alone mode. See new parameter web2ldapcnf.access_allowed for defining a list of networks which are allowed access.

Release Date: 2000-04-07

Changes since 0.7.4:

• Small fixes.
• Display current RDN as input default when choosing modrdn.

Release Date: 2000-04-06

Changes since 0.7.3:

• Fixed missing module import when running stand-alone.

Release Date: 2000-04-05

Changes since 0.7.2:

• J. Stezenbach <yawyi@gmx.net> provided a patched version of charset.py for faster character set conversion.
• J. Stezenbach <yawyi@gmx.net> provided a solution for the hanging socket when running as stand-alone and catching ErrorExitClass exception in HandleHTTPRequest().
• All functionality is put into modules for reducing start-up latency especially when running as CGI-BIN (thanks again to J. Stezenbach <yawyi@gmx.net> for giving the right optimization hints).
• Use string templates for displaying entry data in search result table (new parameters!).
• Make asynchronous searches to behave less memory-consuming especially when downloading large amount of LDIF or DSML data.
• New per-host parameter search_maxhits introduced to limit the number of search results displayed in search result table. This means: Behave nicer on large sites.

Release Date: 2000-02-27

Changes since 0.7.1:

• Added button downloading DSML-formatted directory data. (Very preliminary and primitive implementation of a DSML level 1 producer. This needs testing!).
• Fixed bug with LDIF data containing non-ASCII characters.
• Cleaned up password setting and added support for SMD5 and SSHA hash types. Also hash types can be restricted in the per-host configuration.

Release Date: 2000-02-26

Changes since 0.7.0:

• Stand-alone mode delivers documents from web2ldapcnf.document_root now.
• Added attribute thumbnailphoto to web2ldapcnf.ldap_binaryattr.
• Changed the behaviour of the Easy Search button:
  If the base DN is empty the current DN is displayed as default search base. This is more handy if browsing in big X.500 trees.
• Some bug-fixes.

Release Date: 2000-02-20

Changes since 0.6.10:

• Stand-alone mode by deriving own HTTP handler class from SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler. Running stand-alone speeds up things dramatically (modules are not re-imported every time).
  And yes, it's multi-threaded (needs testing!!!).
  And yes, it runs under Windows.
• Runs under Windows now.
• Abandoned all global variables.
• Does not use sys.stdin or sys.stdout directly any more.
• Function calls for the web2ldap commands through wrapper-function HandleHTTPRequest().
• Produces correct HTTP expiring header now.
• Make use of useful changes in module cgiforms.py.
• New parameter web2ldapcnf.input_maxattrs.
• New button "Login As" when displaying an entry.

Release Date: 2000-02-08

Changes since 0.6.9:

• Two small fixes to building of modify list.
• Fixed wrong HTML escaping in displaying of multi-line entries.

Release Date: 2000-02-07

Changes since 0.6.8:

• Do not print "Go up" buttons for DNs above basedn
• Started writing documentation...
• Fixed problems with URLs and hidden parameters based on DNs containing " quotes.
• Modify: Leave attribute objectClass alone if it does not have to be changed and change objectClass and rest of entry in one call of modify_s().
• Changed effect of web2ldapcnf.print_rawutf8: 0 Never, 1 Smart, 2 Always
• Read single binary data from multi-valued attributes (not yet usable in UI).
• New configuration parameter web2ldapcnf.ldif_maxbytes for limiting the amount of data in the LDIF input field.
• Even more bug hunting, code cleaning and small UI enhancements.
• Escape special HTML/Javascript characters to address security problems with scripting content described in CERT advisory CA-2000-02.

Release Date: 2000-01-29

Changes since 0.6.7:

• Bug hunting and code cleaning.
• Smarter main menu.
• Graceful error handling.
• Nice confirmation dialogue for delete.
• Recursive delete of sub-trees.

Release Date: 2000-01-28

Changes since 0.6.6:

• Fixed bug with download of binary attributes introduced in 0.6.5 or 0.6.6
• New handling of SSL-related environment variables: Prefer mod_ssl style with fallback to old ApacheSSL style.

Release Date: 2000-01-25

Changes since 0.6.5:

• You might have guessed it: Bug hunting and code cleaning!
• Better support and example for CSS

Release Date: 2000-01-23

Changes since 0.6.4:

• Implemented modrdn.
• Omnipresent button bar throughout the whole UI now (including error messages).
• Direct input of LDIF data possible during adding or modifying entries (e.g. for binary data).
• Display attributes of entry according to the schema categories (required, allowed, not matching).
• Minor bugfixing and code cleaning.

Finally you can insert your blinky-winky HTML design:

• Display entries with HTML template files depending on objectClass.
• HTML clean-up to be hopefully SGML-conform (and friendly to browsers).
• Configuration parameters for complete <BODY> tag.
• ID params in important HTML tags for using CSS.
• Configuration parameters for string placed in <HEAD></HEAD> section (suitable for placing <STYLE> tags).

Release Date: 2000-01-06

Changes since 0.6.2:

• Some minor enhancements of user interface
• Fixed a basedn-related bug in smart login search
• Added automatically start of CGIHTTPServer.py if web2ldap.py is invoked from command-line (only Unix up to now).

Release Date: 2000-01-04

• bad day...

Release Date: 2000-01-03

Changes since 0.5.8:

• started enhanced user interface

Release Date: 1999-12-29

Changes since 0.5.6:

• some code cleaning / bug fixing
• enhanced direct handling of UTF-8 input/output more conform to HTML4 standard
• new feature: for each host a dictionary with DNs as keys can be created to define the default objectclass and attribute for forming DNs for subordinate entries (see example in cgi-bin/web2ldapcnf.py under host ldap.stroeder.com). This is handy in situations where unexperienced users have to add entries without knowing how to form a new DN.

Release Date: 1999-12-21

Changes since 0.5.3:

• some code cleaning / bug fixing in login procedure
• some small performance enhancements
• direct output of UTF-8 if browser sends UTF-8 in HTTP_ACCEPTED_CHARSET (e.g. like Netscape Communicator 4.5x does)
• fixed problems with being too case sensitive in modify
• some small improvements in user interface

• small bugfix

Release Date: 1999-12-12

Changes since 0.5.2:

• deal with DNs containing spaces between DN components
• fixed behaviour of accidently case sensitive attribute name handling in addform/modifyform

Release Date: 1999-11-17

Changes since 0.5.0:

• renamed project to web2ldap
• complete re-design of modifyform to make it possible to change objectClass attributes.
• minor enhancements of user interface
• some small bug fixes

Release Date: 1999-10-05

Release Date: 1999-09-27

Changes since 0.4.4

• complete re-design of add/modify
• client-side schema checking with appropriate input forms for required and allowed attributes
• automatically checking for missing parent DNs if add fails with "NO SUCH OBJECT" for reducing FAQ-traffic on OpenLDAP mailing lists ;-)
• support for setting hashed passwords ({crypt},{md5} and {sha})
• minor enhancements of user interface
• some small bug fixes

Release Date: 1999-09-04

Changes since 0.4.2

• some bug fixes
• more complete and slightly faster character conversion

Release Date: 1999-08-19

Release Date: 1999-08-18

Changes since 0.4.1

• security fix! (forgot METHOD-parameter in a <FORM>-tag)
• small fixes in user interface

Release Date: 1999-08-08

Changes since 0.3.1:

• bind without input of full bind-dn (anon search seeks for complete DN first)
• working tree traversal
• almost every parameter configurable for each LDAP host separately
• vCard's for easy download of addresses in address books of NS Comm. and MS IE.
• LDIF output of search results for bulk downloading of addresses (no binary attributes up to now)
• improvements to the user interface
• clean login behaviour
• minor HTML improvements

Dig DejaNews if you're interested in changes of these ancient releases...

Release Date: 1999-08-07

Release Date: 1999-07-21

Release Date: 1999-07-21