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Re: Syntax Integer and leading zeros

To: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Subject: Re: Syntax Integer and leading zeros
From: Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:35:36 +0200
Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org
In-reply-to: <46D0150A.9030802@symas.com>
References: <46CEF25F.3050108@mercer.edu> <D461F6387E022BC2299C84FA@[192.168.1.3]> <46D001CE.5070805@stroeder.com> <46D01249.10105@symas.com> <46D0150A.9030802@symas.com>
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Howard Chu wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
>> So - to comply with the spec, clients should not be generating integer
>> values with leading zeroes. If you don't like this, you have to change
>> the LDAP spec first.
> 
> Never mind, the Integer definition comes from ASN.1, and it's defined
> there with leading zeroes prohibited as well. There's no way anyone is
> going to get that changed...

Sorry, my fault. Well, then ASN.1 might be considered broken here...

Maybe the original intention was to force the client to do the
normalization step. Added this to web2ldap now...

Ciao, Michael.

References:
- Schema difficulties-Openldap 2.0.27 -> 2.3.34
  - From: Scott Lacy <LACY_S@Mercer.edu>
- Re: Schema difficulties-Openldap 2.0.27 -> 2.3.34
  - From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>
- Syntax Integer and leading zeros (was: Schema difficulties-Openldap 2.0.27 -> 2.3.34)
  - From: Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
- Re: Syntax Integer and leading zeros
  - From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
- Re: Syntax Integer and leading zeros
  - From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>

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