Hi, Sure you can store every kind of digital data in a directory. The LDAP spec does not set any limit to the size of an object or an attribute the only limits are system and implementation related. I made myself some tests and I was able to store attributes witha size of about 10 Megs.
But, but, but..... this is not the type of business an LDAP server has been thought for. An LDAP Server should answer quickly queries about some attributes of the object. If you begin to store BLOBS in your objects, you fill pretty quickly the memory caches that every implementation uses to speed up the queries and you should not wonder about the slow answer times. This situation is not INHERENT to LDAP and probably the border will move up in the future, but at the moment an object should be no bigger than 50 Kbytes. You can get the best results with a couple of Kbytes. My solution is to store an URL (pointing to a file store) instead of the object itself. Best regards Giovanni -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: qazmlp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. September 2006 07:29 An: [email protected] Betreff: [ldap] attributes type for storing files in directory servers?? I would like to know whether it is possible to store the files in an directory server. I could see that the following attribute definition is available currently in the standard schema: attributetype ( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.60 NAME 'jpegPhoto' DESC 'RFC2798: a JPEG image' SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.28 ) This means, I can store the .jpeg files in the directory. I would like to know whether it is possible to introduce syntax for storing other files(.txt, .asn etc.). If yes, what exactly needs to be done to support this. --- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE as the SUBJECT of the message. --- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE as the SUBJECT of the message.
