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<p>This sounds very much like an [id://542341|XY Problem]. What are you actually trying to accomplish? Which said, I'm game to try and answer the question you asked ...</p>
<p>The allowed content of an LDAP (v3) attribute is defined in the [wp://Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol#Schema|LDAP Schema]. You can use [mod://Net::LDAP::Schema] to retrieve this from the server. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, this may or may not help you, as there are several "kinds" of binary data which can exist even in the [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2252.txt|Standard Types], let alone any custom extensions which you may have. For example, the RFC mentions the <c>Audio</c>, <c>Binary</c>, <c>JEPG</c> and <c>Octet String</c> syntaxes. You could probably implement a lookup table to specify which comparison method should be used, based upon the [wp://Object_identifier|OID] of the syntax for each attribute's value. This would be the route to take if you are (for example) trying to compare two different LDAP directories.</p>
<p>If, OTOH, you are trying to find partially matching entries in a single LDAP, you might be able to make the server do the work and just use a [mod://Net::LDAP::Filter|filter] to pull out entries which match your desired attribute/value pairs. Since you don't seem to be to rigorous about comparing the binary values, this may be "good enough".</p>
<code>
my $filter = "(&";
foreach my $attr (keys %lookingfor)
{
$filter .= "($attr=\"
. escape_filter_value($lookingfor{$attr})
. "\")";
}
$filter .= ")";
$ldap = Net::LDAP->new($server);
$mesg = $ldap->bind;
$mesg = $ldap->search(
base => $base,
filter => $filter
);
$mesg->code && die $mesg->error;
foreach $entry ($mesg->entries) { $entry->dump; }
$mesg = $ldap->unbind;
</code>
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