Thanks for the pointer. I was actually already aware of the rfc, what
has been giving me a great deal of grief has been implementing it. So
escaping these characters sound sreal easy until you see that it:
- Must be escaped for LDAP.
- Then must be escaped again for the API (at least for JNDI).
- Then because it's used in a string in Java it must be escaped
again.
So 1 \ character turns into 8. I there an easier way to handle this?
The escaping information I got from SUN's site:
http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/tutorial/beyond/names/syntax.html
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated,
James
-----Original Message-----
From: Ivailo Iliev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:07 AM
To: Chamberlain, James O. CONTR J9C998
Subject: Re: problems escaping characters in dn using java sdk
RFC 2254..
not bad ideq to escape symbols before entering in server too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chamberlain, James O. CONTR J9C998"
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To: <mozilla-directory@mozilla.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:35 AM
Subject: problems escaping characters in dn using java sdk
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use a dn which has special characters in it within a
> filter.
>
> The special characters that I am told to expect include \/,()-_."
>
> I am trying to use this filter to determine group membership for the
> user.
>
> A typical dn might be something like: cn=Smith\, James //Captain
> (level1), ou=users, dc=company, dc=com
>
> Escaping this has turned out to be a nightmare :-(
>
> Whenever I try to escape the comma with backslashes I always get a
>
> netscape.ldap.LDAPException: Bad search filter (89); Bad parameter to
an
> LDAP method
> at
> netscape.ldap.LDAPConnection.sendRequest(LDAPConnection.java:1804)
> at netscape.ldap.LDAPConnection.search(LDAPConnection.java:2520)
> at netscape.ldap.LDAPConnection.search(LDAPConnection.java:2402)
> at Tester.<init>(Tester.java:108)
> at Tester.main(Tester.java:163)
>
> Does anyone have any advice for escaping special characters using the
> netscape LDAP API?
>
> - James
>
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