[Zope] Dumb question: Can Zope be used as a LDAP server?

[Stephan Richter]

On Sunday 08 December 2002 10:08, Eron Lloyd wrote:
> Twisted (http://www.twistedmatrix.com) is where you would want to be for
> something like this. At some point in Zope 3, Twisted and Zope may become
> more aware of eachother, so my suggestion is to help develop a
> Twisted-based LDAP server, which could then easily communicate with Zope.

Well, actually Twisted works already for a long time with Zope 3. Itamar 
worked hard on getting this done. 

However, there are several issues with a Twisted-based LDAP approach:

1. The current Twisted LDAP code does not have the right license. Anyway, I 
prefer having something in the Zope core with the ZPL.

2. I still have to write all the Request and Publisher code, which is also a 
lot of work, especially for something like LDAP. (I thought the VFSPublisher 
code was a lot, but this is about 5 times (wild guess) bigger.)

On the other hand, Shane and I took a lot of time to modularize the server 
framework for Zope 3 when porting Medusa to the new framework, which could 
mean that the Twisted module would do just fine. But then Steve and I agree 
we do not want our LDAP server depend on Twisted. :-)

I will have to investigate that further when I have time. But I still would 
love it, if some others would step up and write a **basic** LDAP server. I 
can help them to integrate it into Zope later.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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