Michael Ströder wrote:
You're missing the point. I'm thinking one step *ahead* you. IMO there's
nothing wrong with bringing to your attention that people *now* assume line
breaks to be preserved. Especially since you're not working in the GUI camp at
all.
There could be valid reasons in the future to strip white spaces in LDAP
requests in a normalization step. So asking for the confirmation that this
behaviour will remain in the future is not imprecise or false at all.
Especially when looking at 12 years history where sometimes things changed
(for valid reasons).
In that case, since we cannot make any predictions about the future, the smart
thing to do is to make no assumptions whatsoever about what the server will
preserve or strip. Treat all values as unformatted data and reformat it in
your client whenever presenting to a user.
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-- Howard Chu
CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
