Re: how to add a base64 attribute without the use of ldif

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

You that is wrong. You need to decode the string first. MIME::Base64
can do that for you. Then pass the decoded form into ->modify.

Graham.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:41:46PM +0100, Uwe Jans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know how to add a base64 encoded string with perl-ldap?
> 
> In ldif it looks like this:
> 
> cn:: dfvfgwjfhwfj==
> 
> And in Perl-Ldap i tried this:
> 
> $ldap->modify( $dn, add => { cn => 'dfvfgwjfhwfj==' } );
> 
> but the result look like this in ldif:
> 
> cn: dfvfgwjfhwfj==
> 
> Thats is wrong, isn't it?
> 
> 
> Thanks, for an quick answer.
> 
> Uwe Jans
>