Re: Problem with LDAP search filter containing a backslash ('\')

Graham Barr <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:36:27 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.ldap
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Jul 20, 2011, at 07:32 , Francis Swasey wrote:

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> On Jul 20, 2011, at 8:26, Chris Ridd <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Graham, should _escape be made public? It seems like it would be useful. Or is manipulating the data structure returned from new the better approach?
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> Perhaps a flag on the new call that indicates there are no escapes in the string so that the existing \, is not assumed to be a pre-existing escape and the \ gets escaped?

That would not work consistently. consider (attr=())

Some guessing would have to go one to know that the first ) needs to be escaped

I think exporting _escape as escape_ldap_filter is the best approach and users should use that as they build their filters

Graham.