Re: Characters in DN

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

It also needs to be schema driven and not depend on any
hardcoding of X.500 symbolic names (e.g., commonName).

At 10:05 AM 7/21/2001, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>> I was reviewing the handling of '#' and noticed that it includes
>> a lot of BER parsing which should be left to -llber.  That is,
>> when the '#' format is used, we should construct a BerElement
>> and then use ber_*() routines to extract what we need.  We may
>> need to extend -llber a bit, but I rather we extend -llber than
>> construct custom BER code for DNs (and for ;binary).
>
>I agree. I'm not familiar with BER decoding and with -llber, though.
>I don't think I'll be able to review this quickly. If David can provide
>a fix it would be great.
>
>Pierangelo.