Re: (Dumb?) X-ORDERED 'VALUES' question

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> I'm implementing the Control syntax in draft-chu-ldap-logschema, which
> is used for the reqControls and reqRespControls as X-ORDERED 'VALUES',
> and I'm having a little bit of trouble in understanding how I should
> encode values.  Right now, I'm putting the DER encoded controls in the
> pretty values, and the control OID in the normalized values as per the
> objectIdentifierFirstComponentMatch equality matching rule.  However,
> it's not clear whether I should put the ordering prefix in either value.
>   If I do, matching fails because test_filter() ignores the fact that an
> attribute may be ordered; in fact, it uses value_match() instead of
> ordered_value_match().  I suspect this is a bug, but I might be missing
> something __really__ obvious...

Yeah, sounds like a bug and we should change test_filter().
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