Re: ;binary migration solution

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

Jim Sermersheim writes:
> Unless some problem can  be shown, this is what I would prefer.
> 
>>>> Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> 11/15/02 02:58AM >>>
> How about defining ;binary to do nothing, except that if the client
> requests ;binary on an attribute, it receives it with ;binary (whether
> or not the attribute was added with a ;binary option)?

Well, the second suggestion has one problem, so I don't know if that
should be implemented:

> Also, maybe if an attribute was added with ;binary but the client
> requests the attribute without ;binary, it receives it without ;binary.

If the client asks for userCertificate but wants userCertificate;binary,
it would get the wrong value even if the certificate was added with
;binary.

Are there clients like that?

-- 
Hallvard