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Re: [ldapext] [Fwd: LDAP C API gripes]

Kurt Zeilenga wrote: 
Another good reason to provide client side validation is to facilitate
conformance with the LDAP specification... RFC 4511, Section 4.1.5
does say:
   Clients MUST only send attribute values in a request that are valid
   according to the syntax defined for the attributes.

Of course, it's just wishful thinking that clients will actually
adhere to this MUST, which is why there are server side validation
requirements as well.

It would certainly help clients to be more portable and deal with incompatibilities between servers, for example, servers which redefine standard attributes to be single valued etc., or that disagree in other ways about schema. Currently clients tend to be written to assume things about schema that reality reveals are not safe things to assume.

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Pete

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