[Fedora-directory-users] Need to escape space when adding referrals from scripts?

[Pierangelo Masarati]

Ryan Braun [ADS] wrote:
> I have a perl script I've been working on to setup replication.  The
> replication works great for replication from master to master.  But
> I've been running into problems with dedicated consumers and their
> referrals.
> 
> If I disable the add_replical_referral sub in my script,  and let fds
> handle the referrals on the fly it works (go figure :) ).  But it
> doesn't set it up how I want so I need to customize it.  It seems
> like when I set the referrals manually via perl,  the space in the
> url of the referal is causing the whole dn of the update to get
> truncated as soon as it detects a space. Here is what I mean.

The syntax of the "ref" attribute is labeledURI.  This consists in a URI 
and an optional label, separated by a blank.  The URI must have special 
chars, which include spaces, URL-escaped (e.g. spaces must be "%20").

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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