[DIRSERVER-187] Ldif files must begin with "version: 1"

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: ldap
• Environment: not relevant
• Assignee: Emmanuel Lécharny
• Reporter: Emmanuel Lécharny
• Created: 28/Jan/05 08:28
• Updated: 26/Aug/06 10:58
• Resolved: 26/Aug/06 10:57

Description

RFC 2849 states that a ldif file must start with the 'version: 1' string. LdifParserImpl does accept files that don't respect this rule.

It was marked Trivial as this is really not an issue : Microsoft(TM) ldifde.exe tool accept those kind of files (even worse : it does NOT accept files with a 'version: 1' string ...). I think that it should be an option, but at least, it should verify that the version number is '1', if present ! (p.5, par.1)

BTW, RFC2849 is not very clear on this subject, and could be interpreted as "If <version-spec> is absent, ..." instead of "If version number is absent..."