Re: Line breaks in Directory String values

2012-03-25 Thread Michael Ströder
Howard Chu wrote: Michael Ströder wrote: Howard Chu wrote: Michael Ströder wrote: So I'd be interested in hearing one of the core developers confirm that line breaks in those attribute values will always be preserved when added via LDAP. The attribute types in question all have Directory

Re: Line breaks in Directory String values

2012-03-25 Thread Howard Chu
Michael Ströder wrote: You're missing the point. I'm thinking one step *ahead* you. IMO there's nothing wrong with bringing to your attention that people *now* assume line breaks to be preserved. Especially since you're not working in the GUI camp at all. There could be valid reasons in the

Re: Line breaks in Directory String values

2012-03-25 Thread Michael Ströder
Howard Chu wrote: Michael Ströder wrote: There could be valid reasons in the future to strip white spaces in LDAP requests in a normalization step. So asking for the confirmation that this behaviour will remain in the future is not imprecise or false at all. Especially when looking at 12

Re: Line breaks in Directory String values

2012-03-23 Thread Howard Chu
Michael Ströder wrote: Nick Milas wrote: On 22/3/2012 2:20 μμ, btb wrote: i press the enter key on my keyboard Interestingly, I found that the same is also possible with JXPlorer. ACLs can be formatted like that and they remain formated. They also function without problems. Unfortunately,

Re: Line breaks in Directory String values

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Ströder
Howard Chu wrote: Michael Ströder wrote: So I'd be interested in hearing one of the core developers confirm that line breaks in those attribute values will always be preserved when added via LDAP. The attribute types in question all have Directory String syntax. But glancing at the RFC

Re: Line breaks in Directory String values

2012-03-23 Thread Howard Chu
Michael Ströder wrote: Howard Chu wrote: Michael Ströder wrote: So I'd be interested in hearing one of the core developers confirm that line breaks in those attribute values will always be preserved when added via LDAP. The attribute types in question all have Directory String syntax. But