Re: LDAP Interface

[Ben Ocean <linux@thewebsons.com>]

At 08:16 AM 7/2/02 -0500, you wrote:
>On July 2, 2002 at 05:18, Ben Ocean wrote:
>
> > Sure. I'll be wanting to:
> > a) authenticate to LDAP (username, passwd)
>
>This has nothing to with MHonArc.  It has to do with your HTTP server.
>If using Apache, I believe there is an authentication module that
>allows authentication via LDAP.

Oh. Right.

>I do not know if LDAP would be efficient for this.  If you want
>to do fulltext searching, I would not recommend LDAP.  What kind
>of searching would you like to do?

I presume it's called full text searching. The *standard* kind of searching 
one does on any search for discussion lists such as for python.org, 
zope.org, etc. I thought LDAP would be appropriate here because the data 
doesn't change. Are you saying MySQL is more appropriate?
TIA,
BenO


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