Re: [Evolution] LDAP, LDIF, and WTF? :)

["Shahms E. King" <shahms shahms com>]

On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 13:41, Brian wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 16:35, Brian wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 16:22, Jason Kohles wrote:
> >
> > > Your address probably contained a character that ldap thought was not
> > > safe to store directly, what you are seeing here isn't technically
> > > gobbledygook  =), but is what you entered, encoded as base64...
> >
> > Uh, no. If plain ASCII text and numbers (not even punctuation) aren't
> > what ldap thought was safe to store directly, then what is?  
>
> Could it be the return between the street address and city/state that's
> causing it?

yes a \r or \n is sufficient to cause LDAP to Base64 encode it b/c a
linefeed in the ldif spec signals the end of an attribute, so you cannot
include a raw linefeed in an attribute.

--Shahms