Re: OpenLDAP and RFC 2489

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> RFC 2489 (LDAP Data Interchange Format) says: "An LDIF file consists of a 
> series of records separated by line separators."
>
> This implies that there should not be a blank line at the end of an LDIF 
> file (separator vs. terminator).  Believe it or not, this caused a rather 
> heated discussion...
>
> LDAPSEARCH will always include a trailing newline if there is data; is 
> this technically correct behaviour?

Can you please elaborate what's the issue with this is? I don't 
know any implementation which has problems with it. BTW: 
python-ldap's module ldif also generates an empty line at the end 
of each record, also the last one. And off course when parsing 
entries this is handled as well.

Ciao, Michael.