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Re: telephoneNumber Syntax...
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> --On Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:20 PM +0200 Pierangelo Masarati
> <ando@sys-net.it> wrote:
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>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm using Openldap 2.1.29 under Linux and I'm developing a little
>>> C program with libldap. My problem is, doing a ldap_modify_s(), every
>>> time I get an "Invalid Syntax" for the attribute telephoneNumber.
>>>
>>> Anybody knows the right syntax for telephoneNumber attribute ??
>>> Any ideas ?
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>> Honestly, I don't see any reason for failure. Slapd is pretty liberal
>> on telephone numbers; all it does is remove spaces and '-' at
>> normalization, and complain if the resulting value is empty (i.e.
>> equal to "", a berval of zero length). This behavior didn't change
>> from 2.1 to 2.2.
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> It would probably help if the problem telephonenumber was supplied.
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> I've found OL to be quite picky about telephone numbers, especially when
> extensions are also used with them. We had to build a whole process
> around cleaning up telephone numbers for OL. This is not a bad thing,
> as it is simply getting you closer to being RFC compliant. I have a
> whole list of things that cannot appear in telephoneNumber in OL
> somewhere, I can dig it out if that is wanted.
I think the problems you might have had are related to the fact that 2.1
used IA5 match rules, while 2.2 uses octetString match; normalization
simply strips whitespace and '-'. So all your problems with 2.1 probably
disappeared with 2.2.
p.
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Pierangelo Masarati
mailto:pierangelo.masarati@sys-net.it