Author: Heiko Schlittermann Date: To: Jeremy Harris CC: exim-dev Subject: Re: [exim-dev] LDAP multiline attribute oddity
Jeremy Harris <jgh@???> (Di 19 Jan 2016 12:21:28 CET):
(…) > > Just for my understanding…
> > the, value of the attribute starts with a '\0' byte?
>
> If it does - or, indeed, has embedded NULs - Exim just
> isn't going to deal kindly with it/them. Exim strings
> are C-style nul-terminated. Everywhere. About the
> only places that are special are mail message bodies
> and TLS certificates.
Yes, and how does it help if we retrieve the values as BER encoded? If
they contain \0 after transforming to char[], then we can't use them
anyway, can we?
