IBM Domino - Authentication with IBM Domino LDAP

Question

We want to authenticate user in our mobile application against a Domino server configured with LDAP. We have read some other articles and know that it is possible to authentication using username and password in the URL.

Problems:

• We have no experience with IBM Domino
• We don't know the exact config on the server.
• The document is quite old and not official.

Questions:

• Is this the only way to authenticate with the server?
• Are there any different configurations (e.g. basic authentication disabled,...) for this solution not to work?
• Is there any official documentation on how to do this?

Answer 1

The articles you linked to are not about LDAP authentication. They are about authentication via HTTP requests. You can certainly do that, but it isn't LDAP and you'll have to know more about the Domino server configuration. For instance, you'll have to know if the Domino server is actually running the HTTP task, if it is, you'll have to know what authentication methods are configured for it.

If you want to do LDAP authentication, and if the Domino server is actually running the LDAP task, then Domino LDAP works the same way that other LDAP servers work. You open an LDAP connection to the server using a DN that identifies the user, and you send the password with the bind request. Your mobile toolkit probably provides tools for this.