On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, chris_news@arcor.de wrote:
I've accidentally discovered that CPAN's Net::LDAP::Entry module doesn't support them (in the distinguished name). Other attributes are escaped correctly.
What exactly leads you to this conclusion?
I setup the DN with $entry->dn($dn); and generated with write_entry an LDIF-file. The DN wasn't base 64 encoded. I could encode it myself, but then the second colon is still missing. So I probably won't use this library.
Or, you could submit the one line fix to have Net::LDAP::LDIF->new($file, $mode, { encode => 'canonical' })
pass "{ mbcescape => 1 }" to canonical_dn().
(Some might also consider it a bug that Net::LDAP::LDIF doesn't default to RFC conforming output but rather requires you to explicitly request it.)
Philip Guenther