[Fwd] Potential bug in Net::LDAP

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

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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:19:22 +0000
To: gb...@po...
Cc: Thomas Stripling <tst...@ho...>
From: Douglas Gray Stephens <gr...@ca...>
Subject: Potential bug in Net::LDAP

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Graham,

I think that I may have hit a bug in Net::LDAP, in that it is behaving
differently to the other LDAP Perl modules, or the ldapsearch command
line clients from iPlanet, openldap and Innosoft (of course all of
these use a variant of the C SDK).  It appears that the C SDK reduces
multiple wild cards to a single wild card.  From the server logs, and
looking at the OpenLDAP ldapsearch client with debugging enabled, I
believe that this is done in the client.

The attached file has 3 perl programs for Net::LDAPapi, Net::LDAP, and
Mozilla's perldap, extracts from iPlanet LDAP server log, and the
command line output from running the perl code, and the openldap
ldapsearch command.

The Net::LDAP version details are
 DB<6> p $Net::LDAP::VERSION
0.2701
  DB<7> p $Net::LDAP::Util::VERSION
0.09
  DB<8> p $Net::LDAP::Filter::VERSION
0.14

Can you consider if Net::LDAP should adopt the same user friendly
approach of removing duplicate wild cards (may be the parse subroutine
in Filter.pm so also do
   $filter =~ s/\*+/\*/go;
after
   $filter =~ s/^\s*//;
).

Thanks,

Douglas.





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