Re: [PATCH] Support for directoryName format in GeneralName fields

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Dr S N Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

drh> There is however a nastier issue which has so far prevented me from
drh> adding something like this myself. The CONF code itself handles certains
drh> kinds of quoting and escaping. This effectively strips out certain
drh> characters such as ", ' and \ . This totally messes up RFC2253 format
drh> DNs and AFAICS can't be fixed without major surgery to the CONF library.

Not completely true.  I remade the CONF code some time ago to be able
to handle differing syntaxes.  It would be quite easy to just generate
a new syntax table that works better with the RFC2253, perhaps with a
few support routines (making it a complete new NCONF method instead of
just a slightly changed syntax table).

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