FW: perl-ldap "anomaly"?

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

Folks,

Back when I was younger and stupider (about five minutes ago), I posted the
attached message.  It has been pointed out to me that the entry was exactly
as expected, just "base64 encoded", as would be necessary to maintain a
leading blank character!

Everything works as it is supposed to.  So, in the immortal words of Emily
Latella, "Never mind..."    :-)

rnd

p.s.  Thanks for the library.  It has made my LDAP hacking very simple and
easy!


>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Diffenderfer, Randy  
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:33 AM
> To:	'per...@li...'
> Subject:	perl-ldap "anomaly"?
> 
> 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...
>