perl-ldap-dev

FW: Thanks Chris

[Behruz R. <beh...@cp...>]

Thanks Chris,

Your questions helped me to figure out where was the problem. You are right
by the default it use the LDAP V2. so what I did, i specified during the
bind operation version=>3 and that solved my problem.
Thanks again

By the way how can you setup the PERL-LDAP to be V3 by default?

Thanks and have a nice day.
Behruz.



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Ridd [mailto:chr...@me...]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:40 AM
To: perl-ldap
Cc: Behruz Rushenas
Subject: Re: (no subject)


Behruz Rushenas <beh...@cp...> wrote:
> Hi Graham,
>
> First of all thanks for the great job on LDAP.
> I have a question concerning an ldap attribute which contains special
> caraters such as "#".
> When I call the function entry->get( attribute_name), the value is
> returned with some special caracter instead of #.
> How can i fix that.
>
> Thanks.
> Behruz.
>
>
>

Net::LDAP doesn't do any particular mangling of the results from the
directory. They're just stored in scalars, which can hold arbitrary octets
including NUL bytes etc.

Perhaps your server is returning mangled results, or alternatively perhaps
Perl is doing something odd perhaps in the area of Unicode handling. What
version of LDAP are you specifying in the bind? Remember the default is v2.

You can peek at the bytes the server's returning by creating the Net::LDAP
object with debug set to 4 (see the documentation for Net::LDAP->new).

Cheers,

Chris

Re: FW: Thanks Chris

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

Behruz Rushenas <beh...@cp...> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Chris,
> 
> Your questions helped me to figure out where was the problem. You are
> right by the default it use the LDAP V2. so what I did, i specified
> during the bind operation version=>3 and that solved my problem.

Was the server sending back mangled values in the LDAPv2 case? In other
words, do you think this is a bug in Net::LDAP :-)

> Thanks again
> 
> By the way how can you setup the PERL-LDAP to be V3 by default?

There's no way to set the default using the API, but basically you could do
something like this:

	$Net::LDAP::LDAP_VERSION = 3;

in your code, before binding. Doing this would mean your code could break
in future Net::LDAP releases, as this variable is not public.

It seems to me better simply to specify the LDAP version you want when you
bind - you are cleanly specifying what you want using a public API.

> Thanks and have a nice day.
> Behruz.

Cheers,

Chris