Re: DN Comparison function

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 04:01:53PM +0100, Christophe Wolfhugel wrote:
> On 13/06/13 15:45, Brian Reichert wrote:
> > Why not do a string compare on the output of Net::LDAP::Util::canonical_dn()?
> 
> I am not sure this would work as the canonical_dn would not change case for
> the attribute values, so:
> 
> SN=A??roport and SN=A??ROPORT would be different in string comparison, but
> according to the schema still represent the same RDN.

I admit my suggestion was naive.  This post says that not all layers
of RDN need be case-insensitive:

	http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ldap.umich/323

And goes on to explain that it's schema-dependant.  I've not looked
at the code for canonical_dn(), but I doubt it's aware of any schema.

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