Escape special characters in LDAP filter #27
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RFC 4515 requires * ( ) \ and NUL to be escaped with a backslash followed by the hexadecimal representation of the byte value. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4515#section-3
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I'll have a look at this next week. I guess I've just depended on Net::LDAP to handle it. |
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Net::LDAP has no handling for this, sadly. Net::LDAP::Filter knows how to escape and unescape attribute values in a filter, but the only input form is the filter string, so we must do the escaping ourselves. |
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RFC 4515 requires
*()\andNULto be escaped with a backslashfollowed by the hexadecimal representation of the byte value.