On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:11:51AM -0700, James Yonan wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Charles Duffy wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:00:09 +0100, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > > > Recent updates of openvpn appear to have changed the handling of > > > whitespace in tls certificate names. > > ... > > > Now it needs '_' not '.' for spaces: > > > > My guess is that this is a consequence of some string-handling changes > > that were going on around 2.0-beta12 to 2.0-beta15. > > Yes, this is something that needs to be better documented. Prior to > 2.0-beta12, the string remapping code was a bit ad-hoc. Since then I've > tried to unify all string remapping towards a consistent model which > remaps illegal chars to '_'. The choice of underbar is arbitrary -- any > inert character will do.
Thanks Charles & James, I'll document this in the Debian package README file. -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | Formación, consultoría y soporte técnico agi@(inittab.org|debian.org)| en GNU/Linux y software libre Encrypted mail preferred | http://inittab.org Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3
