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Re: Q: How can I use a different core.schema with 2.3.x?





--On Monday, January 23, 2006 1:40 PM -0500 Mark Swanson <mark@ScheduleWorld.com> wrote:

Are these custom clients?  What prevents them from using the
telephoneNumber attribute?  At the least, it sounds like the clients you
have querying your service are horribly broken.

Clients: Cell phones, Outlook, Thunderbird, ScheduleWorld, Evolution, KMail, OS/X mail, etc..

Take a cell phone - the numbers it pushes to an LDAP server are often not
compliant with SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.50{32}.

I would have to write some code to translate arbitrary UTF-8 TEL strings
into ...121.1.50 - which is guaranteed to not work perfectly (then back
again into UTF-8 -lossless, which is guaranteed not to work perfectly).

If I don't do perfect translation to/from 121.1.50 (which is impossible)
all LDAP clients (Thunderbird, OS/X mail, Outlook, etc..) will get the
incorrectly translated number, and eventually push that back to the phone.

Also, a good percentage of raw phone numbers entered in
Outlook/Thunderbird/OSX mail, etc.. that I see from folks around the
globe do not conform to ...121.1.50.  It's not just a cell phone problem,
but any non-LDAP software that wants to stay in sync with the LDAP server.

I don't want to disable schema checking. Though, that seems like the only
realistic option as modifying schema_prep.c (thank Frank) sounds like a
maintenance problem.

Have I missed anything? I hope so because if not I will have to move to
another LDAP server.

Given that what you are talking about is an RFC defined SYNTAX for all LDAP servers, how is moving to a different LDAP server going to help you? The basic problem here is data entry by the users of those devices, it sounds like, rather than a problem with the LDAP server. Of course, user education is one of the hardest things to achieve.


--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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