[turba] How are the decode and encode hooks supposed to work?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Andreas Vögele <andreas at altroot.de>:

> I've written decode and encode hooks that convert DER-encoded
> certificates to Base64-encoded text.
>
> When an address book item is displayed the Base64-encoded certificates
> are shown, i.e. the decode hook is called.
>
> But when I edit an item the binary data is shown in the text fields. Is
> this a bug or is Turba supposed to work this way?

This is likely a bug. Please post a ticket on http://bugs.horde.org/

> I think I'll change the LDAP driver so that certificates are converted
> to Base64 on the fly. I had to change the driver anyway since
> ldap_get_entries() doesn't handle binary data properly.

I think there is already a ticket for this. If you can confirm that  
the ldap_get_values_len() call can handle non-binary data okay, then  
we should be able to replace the existing calls with binary-safe ones.  
Otherwise I'd like to see a general strategy for handling binary data  
both in the LDAP driver and in all of Turba.

-chuck

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