Re: DN comparision not using compare function

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

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:11:25PM -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 04:38 PM 2/12/01 +0000, Graham Barr wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:15:47AM -0500, ne...@na... wrote:
> >> 
> >> Thanks Chris.  I think that Mozilla::LDAP might have a canonicalization
> >> function that should work and be a little bit more complete than my hack :
> >> -P  I haven't tried it yet so I may be wrong.
> >
> >I am sure I have posted this before, and I am considering adding it to 
> >Net::LDAP::Util
> 
> I note your code treats:
>    1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.0=#04024869,O=Test,C=GB
> as
>    1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.0=\04\02Hi,O=Test,C=GB
> 
> These are not equivalent.  That is, the RDN
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.0=#04024869 can be represented
> as 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.0=Hi.  This is because later
> RDN value is the BER encoding of the value, the
> former is the hex escaped encoding of the value.
> 
> I suggest you don't to muck with BER encoded values.

If we don't then we cannot compare two DNs where one is BER encoded
and the other is not.

Hm, maybe we just list that as a limitation of the code.

Graham.