From openldap-devel  Wed Apr 03 17:22:30 2024
From: Howard Chu <hyc () symas ! com>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:22:30 +0000
To: openldap-devel
Subject: Re: ldap_get_values() called on binary data - does this return an error, or garbage data?
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Jordan Brown wrote:
> Is there even a straightforward way in the protocol to get type informa=
tion?=C2=A0 If the protocol won't tell you, a client library can't tell y=
ou.

Any client can retrieve the schema definition of any schema element using=
 an LDAP Search request.

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