Re: [exim-dev] LDAP multiline attribute oddity

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Author: Heiko Schlittermann
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To: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] LDAP multiline attribute oddity
Graeme Fowler <graeme@???> (Di 19 Jan 2016 11:51:57 CET):
> On 18 Jan 2016, at 18:22, Jeremy Harris <jgh@???> wrote:
> >
> > You could rewrite that "ldap_get_values()" call, for which there's
> > a "deprecated" note in my (Fedora 23) include file, with
> > "ldap_get_values_len()" - which supports a binary interface for
> > arbitrary byte-sequences. You'll need struct berval (lber.h)
> > fore the pointer+length.
>
> And this, of course, was the right answer. It seems that some shorter (as yet undefined) responses are happily handled as char responses even though they're binary, the longer ones most definitely aren't. It's fairly likely that this issue has existed for some time and we've simply never been alerted to it!


Just for my understanding…
the, value of the attribute starts with a '\0' byte?

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Heiko