Re: Converting Octet String to String

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

Stefan Walther <wa...@bl...> wrote:
> Dear Experts,
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> I'm a relatively new to Perl and Perl-LDAP, so thanks for your help.
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> I am using PERL-LDAP a Novell/NT directory, and everything works
> fine exept the GUID I need to use; I only get things like =
S=C3=8DH=C3=99TT=C3=94?=C2=AF2
> returned but I cannot manage to use Convert::ASN1
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> I have nearly tried everything (I am able to think about ;-))
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> Thanks for your help
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> Greetings
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> Stefan

The GUID attribute (a proprietary Novell attribute) appears to be defined
as a 16 octet long octet string, according to the NDS online documentation.

The structure of the value isn't obviously described by Novell online. I
would be surprised if the syntax was described by ASN.1; I would guess that
it is a simple packed array of bytes and words instead - see perl's
unpack() function.

Cheers,

Chris