Chapter 1 Introduction; What Is A Gateway - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - GATEWAY CUSTOMIZATION Manual

This chapter describes the gateway functionality of Netscape Directory Server
(Directory Server). The chapter contains the following sections:
• What is a Gateway? (page 15)
• Directory Express and Default Gateway (page 17)
• Support for Multiple Gateway Instances (page 19)
• Anonymous and Non-Anonymous Searching (page 21)
• Compatibility with Previous Releases of Gateway (page 22)
• Automatic Updates to Directory Configuration (page 22)

What is a Gateway?

A gateway is an HTTP-to-LDAP client that lives on an HTTP server. Using special
directives embedded in HTML files, a gateway allows users to access user
directory data using any kind of web browser. Using a gateway does not require
login to the Netscape Console.
In Directory Server, many gateway instances can be defined on one HTTP server,
providing access to any number of Directory Servers. A gateway instance consists
of the following:
• A
defining the context for gateway instance. For example,
dsgw gateway instance.
• An HTML directory for object class templates and other files containing
gateway directives used to communicate with Directory Server.
file, stored in the
.conf
serverRoot/clients/dsgw/context
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directory,
defines the
dsgw.conf
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