Re: protocol: placement of initial/final substrings

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 02:39 PM 12/18/2003, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>I've never heard of this being a constraint in the protocol.

I believe a constraint should be explicitly stated here.  (I'd
argue that definition itself has always implied a constraint.)
Achieving interoperability with multiple encoding options
are possible is problematic.

BTW, OpenLDAP server implements such a constraint.  I don't
recall anyone ever violating it.


>>>> Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> 12/11/03 5:21:58 AM >>>
>Must the <initial> and <final> components be the first and last
>substrings in a SubstringFilter? I can find no general statement which
>says so, though the individual matching rules in [Syntaxes] all require
>such placement.
>
>-- 
>Hallvard