Sending binary data in octetstrings via set requests

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#11 Sending binary data in octetstrings via set requests

Milestone: Next_Release_(example)

Status: open

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Priority: 5

Updated: 2024-09-04

Created: 2024-09-04

Creator: Davide

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It's impossible to send an octet-string not formatted as a display-string in both set and multiple varbind requests.

In my case I want to send a date formatted as date and time where 2024-09-04 13:21:35,1 translates to:
0x07 0xE8 0x09 0x04 0x0D 0x15 0x23 0x01

Entering such data as value in the value field does send the textual value instead of hex bytes.

But being octet-strings automatically parsed as displaystring (ASCII Strings) it's impossible to send such format of data.