Re: Escaping within distinguished names: RFC 2253

[Jim Sermersheim <JIMSE@novell.com>]

>>> Mark Wahl <M.Wahl@INNOSOFT.COM> 5/25/99 1:56:01 PM >>>

>> 1.  What is the precise meaning of "whitespace" as used here?

>ASCII 32.

>   Implementations MUST allow for space (' ' ASCII 32) characters to be
>   present between name-component and ',', between attributeTypeAndValue
>   and '+', between attributeType and '=', and between '=' and
>   attributeValue.  These space characters are ignored when parsing.


I was looking at the use of the word 'whitespace' in the second paragraph.  I guess the implication of what it means is given a couple paragraphs later, but it might be nice to specify it above.

Jim