Further thoughts on LDAP

[Heber Farnsworth <FARNSWORTH olin wustl edu>]

I've been researching LDAP a bit and I think the implementation in Balsa
has a problem in it's design (I'm no expert so take what I say with a grain
of salt).

In Balsa when you open and LDAP addressbook Balsa makes a query before you
even type in the search box.  This fails on my system (and I presume some
others as well) because the server administrator has limited the number of
entries that may be returned.  This is a good thing because it keeps the
server from being vulnerable to stupid (even accidental) DOS attacks.

It seems better to reverse operations.  When the LDAP addressbook is opened
don't search until a certain number of characters have been entered or
until some button (labeled search) or until user hits ENTER.  This is how
Netscape's addressbook works and I think it makes the most sense.

Thoughts?

Heber