The current version of the LDAP Browser is: V0.06. It is still FREE!!! Registration is not required, but you can let us know that you are using the product by filling out our registration form. Notes about features in this version are:

• It only runs in the Internet Explorer web browser. However, the code is designed to allow a one line change to make it run in Netscape. This can be done if requested by users. The major new feature in v0.06 is that it has been tested and runs with Microsoft Active Directory. This product now runs with LDAP servers from all three major vendors (Microsoft, Novell and Netscape/iPlanet).
• It only can view and manipulate string attribute values (no jpegs or other binaries)
• It can add new entries to the directory
• It can change existing entries in the directory
• It can delete entries from the directory
• It can copy a subtree from one place in the directory to another
• Status information is displayed at the bottom of each screen
• Most exceptions are caught
• Userids and passwords are only sent to the directory server you are contacting, and not to any web site.
• You can easily change contexts by typing in a new DN in the context display text field at the top of the main panel.

New Version Available

The release version of the V0.06 browser is now available. This one runs only in Internet Explorer. The start page for this version is here, and the source code can be downloaded here. The generated Javadoc style documentation for the browser is available here.

Please register so that I can let you know when an update is available. This version uses the new Mozilla LDAP SDK for Java. I have compiled and built the source code. If you need this built for your application, please feel free to download it here.

Enter the ldap server host name, and the search base to start in. If you have a userid and password for the server, enter them as well. If you leave any fields blank the empty string will be assumed. For example, if the userid and password aren't filled in, you'll do an anonymous bind to the LDAP server. A good LDAP server to test on that is available on the Internet is Novell's LDAP test server. NOTE: Novell has changed the test server's configuration. If you are having problems, visit the test site to verify the latest configuration. Just enter nldap.com for the host name. A search base is longer required. You can leave the other fields blank.

After the click on OK, you'll be taken to the main browser page. Before you get there you'll see a dialog that is popped up by Navigator letting you know that someone (me) is asking for privileges to connect out to the network. That's because you're about to Bind to an LDAP server, and this privelege is not normally given to browser based applets. If you click on the Grant button, you should (eventually) see a list of all of the objects in the search base the you specified above. If you select an object in the list, the details of the object in string format will appear in the text area below the list box. If you double click on an object in the list, that object will be used as the search base for another search, and the results of that search will be displayed in the list box. Clicking on the Up button will move you up one level in the LDAP hierarchy.

Note that the browser doesn't do any caching, so each time the Up button is pressed, an entry in the list is selected or double-clicked an LDAP search is issued.

Please direct any comments to Bruce Greenblatt