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Re: telephoneNumber Syntax...



--On Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:20 PM +0200 Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it> wrote:


Hi!

   I'm using Openldap 2.1.29 under Linux and I'm developing a little
C program with libldap. My problem is, doing a ldap_modify_s(),
every time I get an "Invalid Syntax" for the attribute telephoneNumber.

   Anybody knows the right syntax for telephoneNumber attribute ??
Any ideas ?


Honestly, I don't see any reason for failure.  Slapd is pretty liberal on
telephone numbers; all it does is remove spaces and '-' at normalization,
and complain if the resulting value is empty (i.e. equal to "", a berval
of zero length).  This behavior didn't change from 2.1 to 2.2.


It would probably help if the problem telephonenumber was supplied.

I've found OL to be quite picky about telephone numbers, especially when extensions are also used with them. We had to build a whole process around cleaning up telephone numbers for OL. This is not a bad thing, as it is simply getting you closer to being RFC compliant. I have a whole list of things that cannot appear in telephoneNumber in OL somewhere, I can dig it out if that is wanted.

--Quanah

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