[ ispman-Bugs-1040543 ] ispman.ldifupdate fails with "unsupported URL type"

Bugs item #1040543, was opened at 2004-10-05 12:17
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Category: upgrade
Group: HEAD
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Joerg Delker (jdelker)
Assigned to: Joerg Delker (jdelker)
Summary: ispman.ldifupdate fails with "unsupported URL type"

Initial Comment:
This is a real nasty one:

Several users got trapped with a "unsupported URL type"
error message when upgrading/checking their LDAP data
with ispman.ldifupdate.

As it turned out this has two causes:

1) The entry "dn: ispmanModule=dns_vars, ou=conf, 
%ldapBaseDN%%" which was added to your LDAP on
installation (up to ispman 1.2) is bogus.
It contains a non-RFC compliant attribute with a html
tag at the beginning:"description: <br>These are ..."
Regarding RFC 2849 such value must be encoded.
Well, this <br> tag is superfluous anyway, so this was
removed earlier already.

2) The current implementation of perl-ldap (0.3202)
contains a bug with LDIF parsing, which causes LDIF.pm
to bail out on the above entry/attrbute with a
"unsupported url type".
This is due to the fact, that the parser falsely
recognises "description: <" as a url (which would be
correctly something like "attr:<".
I already addressed this bug to the maintainer of
perl-ldap and hopefully this will be fixed in a future
version of perl-ldap.

Resolution:
Until 2) is fixed and available you may want to repair
that "broken"  attribute in your LDAP manually (remove
<br> from the beginning of attribute).
Besides that ispman.ldifupdate will contain logic for
updating the confVars, too









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