Re: utility functions for handling Distinguished Names

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

OK, I made a couple of tweaks and it passes the testsuite.

One change is that

  CN=#0102

Now decodes as   { CN => \"\01\02" }

That is the value is a reference. Ans canonical_dn regenerates it correctly.

Graham.

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:19:40AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:21:57AM +0200, Norbert Klasen wrote:
> > --On Freitag, 19. April 2002 08:43 +0100 Graham Barr <gb...@po...>
> > wrote:
> > > Whats wrong with the subs in Net::LDAP::Utils ?
> > 
> > ldap_explode_dn does not unescape escaped characters, e.g. the DN 'CN=\#John
> > Smith\ ' becomes
> > $VAR1 = {
> >           'CN' => '\\#John Smith\\20'
> >         };
> > 
> > instad of
> > 
> > $VAR1 = {
> >           'CN' => '#John Smith '
> >         };
> 
> Hm, I guess canonical_dn needs to be split from usinf explode_dn,
> or explode_dn needs to be told not to expand. Otherwise you cannot tell the difference
> between
> 
>   CN=#a0
> 
> and
> 
>   CN=\#a0
> 
> Do all testcases pass with your functions in place of the existing ones ?
> 
> Graham.
>