RFC Errata
RFC 2849, "The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification", June 2000
Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUPArea Assignment: app
Errata ID: 2258
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Flavio Poletti
Date Reported: 2010-05-13
Held for Document Update by: Peter Saint-Andre
Throughout the document, when it says:
Example 3: A file containing a base-64-encoded value version: 1 dn: cn=Gern Jensen, ou=Product Testing, dc=airius, dc=com objectclass: top objectclass: person objectclass: organizationalPerson cn: Gern Jensen cn: Gern O Jensen sn: Jensen uid: gernj telephonenumber: +1 408 555 1212 description:: V2hhdCBhIGNhcmVmdWwgcmVhZGVyIHlvdSBhcmUhICBUaGlzIHZhbHVl IGlzIGJhc2UtNjQtZW5jb2RlZCBiZWNhdXNlIGl0IGhhcyBhIGNvbnRyb2wgY2hhcmFjdG VyIGluIGl0IChhIENSKS4NICBCeSB0aGUgd2F5LCB5b3Ugc2hvdWxkIHJlYWxseSBnZXQg b3V0IG1vcmUu
It should say:
Example 3: A file containing a base-64-encoded value version: 1 dn: cn=Gern Jensen, ou=Product Testing, dc=airius, dc=com objectclass: top objectclass: person objectclass: organizationalPerson cn: Gern Jensen cn: Gern O Jensen sn: Jensen uid: gernj telephonenumber: +1 408 555 1212 description:: V2hhdCBhIGNhcmVmdWwgcmVhZGVyIHlvdSBhcmUhICBUaGlzIHZhbHVl IGlzIGJhc2UtNjQtZW5jb2RlZCBiZWNhdXNlIGl0IGhhcyBhIGNvbnRyb2wgY2hhcmFjdG VyIGluIGl0IChhIENSKS4NICBCeSB0aGUgd2F5LCB5b3Ugc2hvdWxkIHJlYWxseSBnZXQg b3V0IG1vcmUu
Notes:
There is no section numbering in this RFC, hence the "GLOBAL".
Note 10 in "Notes on LDIF Syntax" says that base64-encoded values are subject to the same folding rules explained in Note 2. Note 2 requires folded lines to begin with a space character.
This modification was introduced passing from draft-good-ldap-ldif to RFC 2849.