Re: [Fwd] perl-ldap on OS/390 ?!

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

"R. Reucher" <ren...@cp...> wrote:
> Chris Ridd wrote:
> 
>> >> So basically everything that you pass into Net::LDAP objects *must* be
>> >> ASCII or UTF-8 (if you are using LDAPv3.)
>> > I know that. The question is, _where_ excatly do I need to convert
>> > (back and forth) ?
>> 
>> I think I said - every value you pass into Net::LDAP from your program
>> and every value you get out again. Since Net::LDAP doesn't mess around
>> with values at all, the bytes you pass in should ultimately end up 'on
>> the wire'.
> Ah... sorry for my "ignorance".
> 
> So - when I understand you correctly - all I have to do is to pass
> EBCDIC converted strings to every Net::LDAP subroutine (like bind,
> search etc.) instead of their ASCII counterparts... correct ?

Yes.

> And the way back is to convert to EBCDIC as soon as I want to _work_
> with the results on the 390 system. also correct ?

Yes.


>> >  5:             password => 'xxxxxxxx');
>> 
>> That's tricky. The password syntax is OCTET STRING, which means 'just the
>> bytes, no character set is implied' so whatever the directory server
>> thinks the bytes are is needed here.
> Hmmmm... I should perhaps try an anonymous bind at first.

That's a good idea. The lack of a character set for passwords is a bit of a
tricky problem in the standards. I'm not sure what the fix is - avoid using
passwords and use something like certificates, I guess. 

Good luck!

Cheers,

Chris