[turba] couple things

Daniel Wittenberg daniel-wittenberg at uiowa.edu
Mon Jan 13 21:15:31 PST 2003


I'm pretty this is the standard, though I don't know the RFC off hand. 
Didn't someone post the RFC and explanation earlier?  I've worked with
some pretty large directory products and this is how they do it.

Dan

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:11, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:
> 
> > Ummm, I don't think this belongs in the LDAP driver, although maybe I
> > misunderstand how the Turba code works.  The "$" only means "newline" in
> > the context of a postal address attribute.  For other ldap attributes, a
> > dollar sign should just be treated as a normal character, no need to
> > escape.  Also, the "$" as a newline character is just a convention.  The
> > LDAP server does not interpret the "$" as any special when it is storing
> > it or sending the value to the client.  The client is responsible for
> > treating a "$" as a newline character.
> 
> Ah. Is this a consistent convention? Can we expect other reasonable clients
> to obey this? Or is this just a "some people think it's a good idea" convention?
> 
> -chuck
> 
> --
> Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck at horde.org>
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Daniel Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg at uiowa.edu>
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