On 19/01/16 11:11, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> Graeme Fowler <[email protected]> (Di 19 Jan 2016 11:51:57 CET):
>> On 18 Jan 2016, at 18:22, Jeremy Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> You could rewrite that "ldap_get_values()" call, for which there's
>>> a "deprecated" note in my (Fedora 23) include file, with
>>> "ldap_get_values_len()" - which supports a binary interface for
>>> arbitrary byte-sequences.  You'll need struct berval (lber.h)
>>> fore the pointer+length.
>>
>> And this, of course, was the right answer. It seems that some shorter (as 
>> yet undefined) responses are happily handled as char responses even though 
>> they're binary, the longer ones most definitely aren't. It's fairly likely 
>> that this issue has existed for some time and we've simply never been 
>> alerted to it!
> 
> Just for my understanding…
> the, value of the attribute starts with a '\0' byte?

If it does - or, indeed, has embedded NULs - Exim just
isn't going to deal kindly with it/them.  Exim strings
are C-style nul-terminated.  Everywhere.  About the
only places that are special are mail message bodies
and TLS certificates.
-- 
Jeremy


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