From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 21 11:39:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E1BF37B402 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:39:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 69479 invoked by uid 100); 21 Feb 2002 19:39:22 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15477.19689.862395.15325@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:39:21 -0600 To: Eric Anderson Cc: Duncan Barclay , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross platform bookmarks and address books? In-Reply-To: <3C7503E6.43549115@centtech.com> References: <000d01c1bae1$d9eab490$6d6020c2@pc598cam> <3C7503E6.43549115@centtech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Context recovered from top posting.] Eric Anderson types: > Duncan Barclay wrote: > > Is there a "good" solution to having a centralised store for one's bookmarks > > and address books? I tend to use a mix of remote Windows machines whilst > > away from home, and at home FreeBSD. Email is well served with IMAP, but I > > get frustrated with bookmarks/addresses being scattered over multiple > > machines. I would want to have a solution that works with IE5, Outlook > > Express, Netscape and XFMail. > We use LDAP for our address book (global) at our company. Most clients can use > it. How does that work for bookmarks? My solution to that was a custom postgresql database along with a web page that queried the database to get the list. Since it is about the simplest database backed web application possible, I did a writeup about it that can be found at . Adding a maildrop that adds adds a URL to the list completes the systems. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message