Re: [Fwd] Perl-LDAP-0.22

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

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:23:46PM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
> Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> > ----- Forwarded message from S Balasubramaniyan
> > <sb...@no...> -----

> >           my $result = $ldap->search (
> >                 base   => "o=nortel",
> >                 filter => "unique_key=12345",
> 
> That is not a legal filter that conforms to RFC 2254. At the very least
> this should be:
> 
> 		filter => "(unique_key=12345)",

This is such a common mistake that Net::LDAP::Filter does

  $filter = "(" . $filter . ")"
    unless $filter =~ /^\(/;


Graham.