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Re: DNs longer than 74 characters are wrapped?

To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: DNs longer than 74 characters are wrapped?
From: Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 08:04:22 +0200
In-reply-to: <20030519223443.GR8524@ns.snowman.net> (Stephen Frost's message of "Mon, 19 May 2003 18:34:43 -0400")
References: <20030519223443.GR8524@ns.snowman.net>
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Hi,

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:

> OpenLDAP's ldapsearch is wrapping DN's which are longer than 74
> characters on to the next line.  Is this behaviour expected?  Is it
> following the RFC (if one exists for this)?  This is not the behaviour I
> would expect.  One problem I certainly see is that skipping all
> ldapsearch output lines which starts with a '#' won't work because of
> this.

Do not mix the way data is stored in the backend and the output of a
search operation. The output of ldapsearch is LDIF, discribed in rfc
2849 and it says clearly that folding lines is possible. I presume it
is your editor folding lines.

-Dieter 

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