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Re: NUL in DNs

To: <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Subject: Re: NUL in DNs
From: "Jim Sermersheim" <JIMSE@novell.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:48:43 -0600
Cc: <ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org>
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sounds good.

>>> "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> 07/19/01 04:56PM >>>
At 03:48 PM 7/19/2001, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>My only concern (and it may be unfounded) would be that some applications or API's currently send a single octet NUL when they really mean to send a zero-length value as a DN.

Per RFC 2253, that would be an invalid DN.  If the DN is not empty,
it must contain at least one RDN.  I think we should consider any
implementation which expects that (or even behaves like that) to
be broken.

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