Re: possible parsing problem with OSI-DS 23 (Distinguished Names)

Steve Hardcastle-Kille <S.Kille@isode.com> Wed, 03 February 1993 21:53 UTC

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To: Allan Cargille <Allan.Cargille@cs.wisc.edu>
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Subject: Re: possible parsing problem with OSI-DS 23 (Distinguished Names)
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From: Steve Hardcastle-Kille <S.Kille@isode.com>

OU="ba"d"  is illegal, as '"' is a special, and thus not in stringchar.
The way to deal with this is OU="ba\"d".   Perhaps I should add some text
on this.

Steve