On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:15:23PM -0700, Neo - wrote:
> No graham i am not using LDIF module .
>
> Just reading the values from ldapsearch command i knew excatly which entry has that
> particular leading space problem .
>
> here is the sample snap shot
>
> D:\>ldapsearch -h hostname -p port -w -b "filter"
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: person
> objectClass: organizationalperson
> objectClass: inetorgperson
> cn:: VGVzdCwgT3RoZXIgVGVsICA=
> givenName: Other Tel
> sn: Test
Ah, ldapsearch is b64 encoding because the value ends with a space
$ perl -MMIME::Base64=decode_base64 -le 'print
q{"},decode_base64("VGVzdCwgT3RoZXIgVGVsICA="),q{"}'
"Test, Other Tel "
Graham.
>
>
> Here is the code that does the addition
>
> i am collecting all the attribute name and thier values in %prod_hash
>
> $addresult = $prod_ldap->add (dn => $dn , attr => [%prod_hash]);
> $addresult->code && warn "failed to add entry: ", $addresult->code;
>
>
> hope this clears up ...
>
> Thanks again.
> -Neo
>
>
> Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:15:23AM -0700, Neo - wrote:
> > This is follow-up of my pervious question ...when i try to add values say
> >
> > CN=" test"; (Having a white space character in front)
> >
> > or name =" "; (null value)
>
> If you are using LDIF tou output the entries then any attribute
> where the value starts with a space or a : or contains non-ascii
> characters will be base64 encoded.
>
> >
> > i expected the values as cn= test;
> > but when i read the cn attribute in directroy server its giving me in non readable
> > format like VGVzdCwgT3RoZXIgVGVsICA=
>
> perl -MMIME::Base64=decode_base64 -le 'print
> decode_base64("VGVzdCwgT3RoZXIgVGVsICA=")' | hexdump -C
> 00000000 54 65 73 74 2c 20 4f 74 68 65 72 20 54 65 6c 20 |Test, Other Tel |
> 00000010 20 0a | .|
>
> Its odd that Net::LDAP::LDIF would output that in b64, I assume
> you are using the LDIF module to output the entry ? Can you post
> the code you use to fetch and display the entry
>
> Graham.
>
>
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