Whitespaces in DN

[kd42]

This is an issue with a legacy LDAP client I am using, that I cannot change.
My problem is that the ldapjs server always sends back DNs in the format "dc=example, dc=com", with a space after each comma.
Is it possible to change this behaviour to send back a DN without any whitespaces?

[mcavage]

Not right now; right now the DN serialization logic all just does
that, as you know, that's what most things want ;). I sort of figured
this random crap with old LDAP clients would come up from to time.

Realistically to do this, I'd need to make this an environment
variable that you would hackily set. In dn.js is a .toString()
method => all of the BER stuff calls that when serializing onto the
wire. Basically, we'd just put in a hacky thing that replaces the
.join(', ') with .join(process.env.LDAPJS_HACK_DN || ', ') or some
such. If you want to try and change that locally and let me know if it
works for you, that would be cool.

m

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:26 AM, kd42
reply@reply.github.com
wrote:

This is an issue with a legacy LDAP client I am using, that I cannot change.
My problem is that the ldapjs server always sends back DNs in the format "dc=example, dc=com", with a space after each comma.
Is it possible to change this behaviour to send back a DN without any whitespaces?

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[kd42]

I made the modification, and I had to change another thing, because I still needed an exact match for the DN.
So I made the attr.toLowerCase optional in the parse function of dn.js. I know it will possibly come back to bite me, with many similar RDNs only differing in letter cases, but it is working good at the moment.
Oh, and thanks for the quick response! :)