Re: Net::LDAP::Filter question

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:20:35PM -0400, ti...@uc... wrote:
> No, the dn of the user is not available.  The dn in the cert is not the 
> dn of user in the directory. In this case, I HAVE to use the cert in 
> the filter, it is the only thing guaranteed to be unique that I have 
> access to at this point.
> 
> Since the userceritificate entry is indexed in the directory, a search 
> works just fine, as long as the 5 characters ('*','(',')','\', and 'nul') 
> mentioned in RFC 2254 are converted beforehand, as detailed in 
> the RFC.
> 
> I was just wondering if there was a method in Net::LDAP::Filter to 
> do this, I take it the answer is no.  (Note, remember to convert the 
> '\' first!)

There is no method to do the escaping, but one might be useful to add.

It also used to be possible to build a filter without going via the
string form, but that got dropped when we moved from Convert::BER
to Convert::ASN1. As nobody screamed I assumed nobody was using it.

Graham.