perl-ldap "anomaly"?

[Diffenderfer, R. <ran...@ed...>]

Folks,

I have run across an "unexpected result" while using the perl-ldap library,
v 0.22.

The code looks something like this...

use Net::LDAP;
$ldap = Net::LDAP->new(...);
$entry = Net::LDAP::Entry->new();
$entry->dn( $dn );
$entry->add( ...
		'foo' => $foo,
		...
		);
$rc = $ldap->add( $entry );

What the problem is, though, is if "$foo" = " foo" (a leading blank
character), then the resulting directory entry attribute 'foo' ends up being
hosed in mysterious ways, with "bizarre" contents, e.g. "IEFxyz==" (or
something like that...).  If "$foo" = "foo" (without a leading blank
character), everything works as expected.

Can you tell me what is going on here, and whether it is "expected" or not?

Thank you,
Randy Diffenderfer
ran...@ed...