Emmanuel,
Thanks for the lesson. I'll find another way!
Chris Lohse
Identity Mgmt Team, Corporate Computer Security
Deere Company World Headquarters
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-Original Message-
From: Emmanuel Lécharny [mailto:elecha...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 12:59 PM
To: users@directory.apache.org
Subject: Re: Apahe Directory Studio -- LDIF Export BASE-64 Encoding Strings
Le 2/27/12 7:25 PM, Lohse Chris a écrit :
[ApacheDS]
Using version 1.5.3 of Apache Directory Studio to export an LDIF. I have
some attributes that are Directory String types, but they have some markup
in them. The LDIF export is BASE-64 encoding these strings, and I'm unable
to find a way to force it to just output the string as-is.
For example:
A displayName value of 'bEngineering Support/b (Also Select Home Page)'
Becomes (in the LDIF):
'displayName::
PGI+RW5naW5lZXJpbmcgU3VwcG9ydDwvYj4gKEFsc28gU2VsZWN0ICJIb21lIFBhZ2UiKQ=='
Other displayName values (without any markup) export fine (as simple text).
Advice?
A value starting with '' will be base 64 encoded. That's what specify
RFC 2849 :
value-spec = : (FILL 0*1(SAFE-STRING) /
: FILL (BASE64-STRING) /
FILL url)
; See notes 7 and 8, below
SAFE-STRING = [SAFE-INIT-CHAR *SAFE-CHAR]
SAFE-INIT-CHAR = %x01-09 / %x0B-0C / %x0E-1F /
%x21-39 / %x3B / %x3D-7F
; any value= 127 except NUL, LF, CR,
; SPACE, colon (:, ASCII 58 decimal)
; and less-than ( , ASCII 60 decimal)---
The reason is that a value like :
displayName: (some URI)
will get its value from a URI.
There is no way to force your data to be in clear text.
--
Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com