Subject: Re: NUL in DNs

From: "Jim Sermersheim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:48:43 -0600

sounds good.

>>> "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <[email-masked]> 07/19/01 04:56PM >>>
At 03:48 PM 7/19/2001, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
>My only concern (and it may be unfounded) would be that some applications or API's currently send a single octet NUL when they really mean to send a zero-length value as a DN.

Per RFC 2253, that would be an invalid DN.  If the DN is not empty,
it must contain at least one RDN.  I think we should consider any
implementation which expects that (or even behaves like that) to
be broken.