> Hi,
>
>
> I'm an LDAP newbie who has inherited the maintenance of an LDAP system, and
> am learning on the fly. Until now I've been able to puzzle out all the
> issues I've faced, but finally my google fu has failed me, so I'm seeking
> more human assistance.
>
>
> My problem is with reserved characters, such as , (comma). The system
> wasn't coping with RDNs that contained these characters, but this was easy
> enough to fix by simply escaping these characters with a backslash.
>
>
> My problem now involves trying to alias entries that contain these escaped
> characters - I am consistently getting "Invalid DN syntax". This is what
> the code to add the alias looks like:
>
>
>
> $operationDN = "aliasedObjectName=" . $this->aliasSafe($aliasDN) . "," .
> $locDN;
>
> $aliasParameterArray = array(
>
> "objectClass" => "alias",
>
> "aliasedObjectName" => $aliasDN
>
> );
>
> $result = ldap_add($this->LDAPcon, $operationDN, $aliasParameterArray);
>
>
>
> The aliasSafe() function converts "=" => "\3D" and "," => "\," (unless the
> commas have already been escaped).
>
>
> This produces DNs that have the following (hypothetical) format:
>
>
>
> $aliasDN: cn=Tomorrow\, When The War Began,cn=books,dc=library,dc=com
>
>
> $operationDN: cn\3DTomorrow\, When The War
> Began\,cn\3Dbooks\,dc\3Dlibrary\,dc\3Dcom,cn=titles,cn=John
> Marsden,cn=authors,dc=library,dc=com
>
>
>
> I've tried every encoding of the comma (in the book name) that I can think
> of (eg, a single backslash, a double backslash, a triple backslash, and even
> '\2C') but everything I've tried so far has given me the "Invalid DN syntax"
> error. Could someone please help me with the syntax and encoding these DNs
> should have?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> MJ
>