Hi,

On Thursday 29 May 2003 20:34, Clifton, Doug wrote:
>    I have experienced the same results when using straight .ldif files to
> load some of the directory servers, but I've not made a definitive study to
> see why.  The values reload and match properly from what I've experienced,
> so we never bothered about it further.  It seemed that the single leading
> space in a value was enough to convince the directory server that the value
> was binary 'blobish' and to handle it as such for all compares,exports, and
> imports.  We've made attempts to clean up some perl code (not net::ldap)
> that had similar problems, so I don't think this is related to net::ldap. 
> Has anyone seen any RFC info on leading spaces?... It would be good to know
> without digging through them if there is something about it ...
> Doug.

The interesting RFC is the one about LDIF: RFC 2849

What you call binary is just  some form of input/output encoding to 
let the server know unambigously whether a leading space belongs to
the attribute or whether it is part of the LDIF file syntax.

Peter
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