Directory viewports

A computer program product comprising a computer recordable medium having a computer readable program recorded thereon, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:

• configure a viewport server with filtering rules for responses from a directory server, wherein the responses are generated to fulfill requests from a client application and wherein the filtering rules determine which data is to be forwarded to the client application;
• intercept one or more responses from the directory server to the client application;
• filter the one or more intercepted responses according to the filtering rules to produce a set of filtered responses;
• and
• send the set of filtered responses to the client application.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• configure a viewport server with filtering rules for responses from a directory server, wherein the responses are generated to fulfill requests from a client application and wherein the filtering rules determine which data is to be forwarded to the client application;
• intercept one or more responses from the directory server to the client application;
• filter the one or more intercepted responses according to the filtering rules to produce a set of filtered responses;
• and
• send the set of filtered responses to the client application.