Re: [Fwd] Potential bug in Net::LDAP

[Christopher A B. <ca...@tc...>]

> ----- Forwarded message from Douglas Gray Stephens <gr...@ca...> -----

> 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*//;
> ).

If this is a concern for your code (i.e. you are allowing arbitrary
searches from user input), why not do it yourself before calling
Net::LDAP's search?

It seems like a waste of processing time in the case where the person
writing the code is specifying a static filter.

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