Re: utility functions for handling Distinguished Names

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

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:33:02PM +0200, Norbert Klasen wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Dienstag, 23. April 2002 11:19 +0100 Graham Barr <gb...@po...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> My version of ldap_explode_dn also unescapes "^#(hexpair)+".
> 'CN=#a0' is 'CN=\a0' and 'CN=\#a0' is 'CN=\23a0'

But that is the problem  'CN=#a0' and 'CN=\a0'  are not the same and should not
be made equal.

> > Do all testcases pass with your functions in place of the existing ones ?
> 
> There is one false positiv left: '01.1=jsmith'

I am not too bother about false positives, we should be liberal in what we
accept.

Graham.