Re: a question regarding qdstring defn in RFC 2252

[Mark Wahl <Mark.Wahl@Sun.COM>]

RFC 2252 section 4.3:

   In encodings where an arbitrary string, not a Distinguished Name, is
   used as part of a larger production, and other than as part of a
   Distinguished Name, a backslash quoting mechanism is used to escape
   the following separator symbol character (such as "'", "$" or "#") if
   it should occur in that string.  The backslash is followed by a pair
   of hexadecimal digits representing the next character.  A backslash
   itself in the string which forms part of a larger syntax is always
   transmitted as '\5C' or '\5c'. An example is given in section 6.27.

Mark Wahl
Sun Microsystems, Inc.