LDAP/DB Issue Followup

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reiterating the problem: DB strips out '&', '!', and '?' characters, thinking they are part of a prepare/execute sequence. LDAP filters need to be able to use '&' and '!' characters for their own purposes. I solved the problem by doing this: 1) prepare query using '!' placeholder (!(sn=Smith)(fn=John)) 2) execute query and pass a '&' as a parameter. The result is an LDAP filter that looks like (&(sn=Smith)(fn=John)) This approach is really ugly and if someone has a better idea, please let me know. Perhaps the special characters could be escaped and the prepare code could ignore them? - -- James 'Chip' Kaufman jkaufman@wamnetgov.com 952-346-3532 PGP key: 697D43DE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAEZFsrlGDUWl9Q94RAq4ZAKDPxQBmk4/n/jjyRZUlN+v1uMyPjQCgsnXs 0E6xCA8eryxX0R/8mgxnI8c= =U9Lv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----