Emmanuel, Thanks for the lesson. I'll find another way!
Chris Lohse Identity Mgmt Team, Corporate Computer Security Deere & Company World Headquarters 400 - 19th Street Moline, IL 61265 Office: (309) 765-4469 Mobile: (309) 781-6446 -----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Lécharny [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 12:59 PM To: [email protected] 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 '<b>Engineering 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
