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Handling LDAP Strings

LDAP uses only string labels for information, so CA Directory resolves them to their true object and attribute identifiers by looking up their schema information. For each object and attribute label specified in the LDAP service requests, DXserver looks first for matching ldap-names, and then for a name.

LDAP is a string-handling protocol only; therefore, the following restrictions are implicit:

• Developers of directory clients must ensure the DSA receives an appropriately formatted LDAP message because the LDAP syntax is highly dependent on appropriate punctuation, white space, and so forth.
• Developers of LDAP directory clients must define locally customized attributes and objects through the DSA schema definition process.
• Developers should remember that LDAP names are not necessarily unique. For example, two organizations can define the string mail but have different syntaxes and uses for it.