Re: URL-encoding noew mandatory with ldapi access ?

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> By setting up an heimdal KDC with an ldap backend, I found a strange 
> issue: URI-encoding '/' character seems to be mandatory with openldap 
> 2.4 clients (at least 2.4.9) now:

Why do you consider this to be strange?

> [root@stalingrad rousse]# ldapsearch -H ldapi:///var/run/ldap/ldapi
> DNS SRV: Could not turn DN="var/run/ldap/ldapi" into a domain
> -> NOK

ldapi:/// translates to an empty host name (here path name) which 
triggers a DNS SRV lookup for _ldap._tcp.domain.

> [root@stalingrad rousse]# ldapsearch -H 
> 'ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldap%2fldapi'
> -> OK
>
> is this intentional ?

Yes, I think so. How should otherwise an empty path/host name be detected?

Ciao, Michael.