Re: found a weird bug....

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

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 06:42:41AM -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 02:20 PM 5/10/00 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> >Ah, but it is a return of the value I send. So just avoid values where
> >value & 0x80808080 is non-zero
> 
> You could do something like:
> 	msgid += msgid & 0x80808080;

no that would not work, consider if msgid contained 0x7f80

> But I wouldn't as this won't fix all the other hosed encodings.

True.

> I prefer to get Microsoft to properly fix their products. 

So would I, but how long do you think that would take.

> This
> can be done through interoperability/certification testing programs.
> I'll make a point of adding appropriate tests to the Basic
> Interoperability Test Suite (BLITS).
> 
>   http://www.opengroup.org/directory/mats/blits23/blits23.htm
> 
> Also, note, that I know of no LDAP SDK which attempts to workaround
> such issues.

That does not mean that Net::LDAP should not. Whats the point of
perl-ldap attempting to be as portable as possible if there are servers,
albeit broken servers, that it cannot communicate with.

Graham.