Re: ldap_get_values() called on binary data - does this return an error, or garbage data?

Jordan Brown <[email protected]> Wed, 3 Apr 2024 18:19:30 +0000

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On 4/3/2024 10:22 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
> Jordan Brown wrote:
>> Is there even a straightforward way in the protocol to get type information?  If the protocol won't tell you, a client library can't tell you.
> Any client can retrieve the schema definition of any schema element using an LDAP Search request.

I had thought that all of those schema definitions were
server-specific.  But I see that RFC 4512 standardizes them.  Thanks.

So that would seem to be the answer to the question:  if you want to
know how to handle a particular data item, you need to query its schema.

-- 
Jordan Brown, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Solaris

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/3/2024 10:22 AM, Howard Chu wrote:<br>
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      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Jordan Brown wrote:
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        <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Is there even a straightforward way in the protocol to get type information?  If the protocol won't tell you, a client library can't tell you.
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      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Any client can retrieve the schema definition of any schema element using an LDAP Search request.</pre>
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    I had thought that all of those schema definitions were
    server-specific.  But I see that RFC 4512 standardizes them. 
    Thanks.<br>
    <br>
    So that would seem to be the answer to the question:  if you want to
    know how to handle a particular data item, you need to query its
    schema.<br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Jordan Brown, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Solaris</pre>
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