[turba] Turba, LDAP, "$", and mapquest
Adam Tauno Williams
adam at morrison-ind.com
Sun Mar 2 13:07:25 PST 2003
It is LDAP standard to use a "$" to represent newlines in multilined values, as
RFC2252 says:
6.27. Postal Address
( 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.41 DESC 'Postal Address' )
Values in this syntax are encoded according to the following BNF:
postal-address = dstring *( "$" dstring )
In the above, each dstring component of a postal address value is
encoded as a value of type Directory String syntax. Backslashes and
dollar characters, if they occur in the component, are quoted as
described in section 4.3. Many servers limit the postal address to
six lines of up to thirty characters.
Example:
1234 Main St.$Anytown, CA 12345$USA
241,000,000 Sweepstakes$PO Box 1000000$Anytown, CA 12345$USA
Is it possible to enable "$" -> "\n" translation in the Turba LDAP driver? I've
noticed this for along time, but never cared. Now it pretty much breaks
mapquest support as this appears to confuse the address parser.
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