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--On Wednesday, April 21, 2004 7:45 AM +0200 Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it> wrote:




--On Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:20 PM +0200 Pierangelo Masarati
<ando@sys-net.it> wrote:


Hi!

   I'm using Openldap 2.1.29 under Linux and I'm developing a little
C program with libldap. My problem is, doing a ldap_modify_s(), every
time I get an "Invalid Syntax" for the attribute telephoneNumber.

   Anybody knows the right syntax for telephoneNumber attribute ??
Any ideas ?


Honestly, I don't see any reason for failure.  Slapd is pretty liberal
on telephone numbers; all it does is remove spaces and '-' at
normalization, and complain if the resulting value is empty (i.e.
equal to "", a berval of zero length).  This behavior didn't change
from 2.1 to 2.2.


It would probably help if the problem telephonenumber was supplied.

I've found OL to be quite picky about telephone numbers, especially when
 extensions are also used with them.  We had to build a whole process
around  cleaning up telephone numbers for OL.  This is not a bad thing,
as it is  simply getting you closer to being RFC compliant.  I have a
whole list of  things that cannot appear in telephoneNumber in OL
somewhere, I can dig it  out if that is wanted.


I think the problems you might have had are related to the fact that 2.1
used IA5 match rules, while 2.2 uses octetString match; normalization
simply strips whitespace and '-'.  So all your problems with 2.1 probably
disappeared with 2.2.

Not last I checked, but I haven't checked thoroughly lately. Try putting an * in a phone number and let me know if it works.

--Quanah

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