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Author [jira] Created: (DIR-184) DnParser does not correctly parse leading
Jacob S. Barrett (JIRA)

2006-04-20, 6:56 pm

DnParser does not correctly parse leading and trailing spaces and pound signs in values.
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Key: DIR-184
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIR-184
Project: Directory
Type: Bug

Reporter: Jacob S. Barrett
Assigned to: Alex Karasulu


As defined in RFC 2253 section 2.4:
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2253.txt)
...
If the UTF-8 string does not have any of the following characters
which need escaping, then that string can be used as the string
representation of the value.

- a space or "#" character occurring at the beginning of the
string

- a space character occurring at the end of the string

- one of the characters ",", "+", """, "\", "<", ">" or ";"
....

A string can lead with '\ ' and trail with '\ '. Both cases are not supported by the DnParser and cause a parsing error. Furthermore, if a string starts with '\ ' only the spaces leading up to the escape should be trimmed. In addition only the spaces a
fter '\ ' when at the end of a value should be stripped.

looking at the valuelexer.g file '\#' will work anywhere in the string, but should really only be supported at the head of the string.

If I understand the RFC correctly then these string should be supported:
"\ four spaces leading and 3 trailing \ " -> "\ four spaces leading and 3 trailing \ "
" \ two leading three trailing \ " -> "\ two leading three trailing \ "
"\# a leading pound" -> "\# a pound"
"a middle # pound" -> "a middle # pound"
"a trailing pound #" -> "a trailing pound #"

These are not valid:
"middle\ spaces"
"# a leading pound"
"a middle \# pound"
"a trailing pound \#"
Unless the next line in the RFC is really true, "Implementations MAY escape other characters." This makes things a bit more hairy I think.


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