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Re: funny error

Fischer, Johannes wrote:
> I had some bad written code (from my self ☺) where I’ve tried to set a description (2.5.4.13) attribute with an empty string (“”).
> The result was a error massage:
> description: value #0 invalid per syntax

Works as designed:
The LDAP syntax Directory String does not allow a null/empty string.

Only LDAP syntax IA5String allows null string (but does not allow anything
else than ASCII).

I consider relying on null strings to be a design flaw.

Ciao, Michael.

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