Empty LDIF values (was: rfc3045 (vendorName/vendorVersion)...)

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Michael Ströder writes:
> If I set the RootDSE's DN in the LDIF with a line containing "dn:" it works. 
> But with "dn: " I get "root_dse: could not parse entry".
> 
>  From my understanding of RFC 2849 both should work.
> 
> dn-spec                  = "dn:" (FILL distinguishedName /
>                                    ":" FILL base64-distinguishedName)
> 
> FILL                     = *SPACE

Indeed.  Also from RFC 2849:

      5)  When a zero-length attribute value is to be included directly
          in an LDIF file, it MUST be represented as
          AttributeDescription ":" FILL SEP.


The libldif code to return different values for "attr:" and "attr: "
looks like a feature, since it handles both cases distinctly, but I
can't understand why.  ("if ( *s == '\0' )" line 117 vs. line 146.)
Since an empty value can be returned in any case, it looks better to
remove the error for "attr: " and return an empty value then too.
Shall I fix it?

-- 
Hallvard