We have a local LDAP directory that provides basic contact information about our user community. We would like to integrate this into some third-party hosted services that allow us to implement widgets that run arbitrary Javascript.

In order to connect Javascript to our LDAP directory, I would like to set up a simple LDAP-to-HTTP proxy that would accept HTTP GET requests, translate them into an appropriate LDAP query, and respond with directory information as JSON-encoded data.

In an ideal world, something like this:

GET /[email protected]

Would get me something like this:

{
    "cn": "Bob Person", 
    "title": "System Administrator", 
    "sn": "Person", 
    "mail": "[email protected]", 
    "telepehoneNumber": "617-555-1212", 
    "givenName": "Bob"
}

(And this obviously assumes that the web application has locally configured information about what base DN to use, how to authenticate, etc).

I guess I could write one...but surely something like this already exists?

UPDATE

The consensus seems to be that there isn't a pre-existing solution out there and that I should just get off my lazy derriere and write one. So I did, and it's here. It's not especially pretty, but it works for my prototyping and I figure maybe someone else will find it useful someday.