json encoding (Freeradius 3.0.13)

[Alan DeKok]

On Nov 22, 2016, at 3:39 PM, Fabrice Durand <fdurand at inverse.ca> wrote:
> i am trying to implement cisco Device sensor
> (http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750/software/release/15-0_1_se/device_sensor/guide/sensor_guide.html)
> that allow to have endpoint data like DHCP, LLDP in the radius
> accounting packet.
> 
> I am able to receive these specific attributes but when i want to send
> them to my api (PacketFence) through rlm_rest module , it looks that
> these attributes are not well encoded.
> 
> You can see in the raddebug trace this attribute Cisco-AVPair =
> "dhcp-option=\0007\000\r\001\017\003\006,./\037!y\371\374+" received
> from the cisco switch which is encoded to that
> "dhcp-option=\u00007\u0000\r\u0001\u000F\u0003\u0006,.\/\u001F!y\uFFFFFFF9\uFFFFFFFC+"

  The json spec says that binary data is \uXXXX where "XXXX" is 4 hex digits.  So the above *mostly* looks OK.  Except for the FFFFF issue... which is a sign problem.

  Fixing that should be as simple as making the data unsigned...

> and i am not able to decode it.
> 
> On my side i did some test with a perl json encoding code and the
> encoding string is suppose to be
> \\0007\\000\\r\\001\\017\\003\\006,.\/\\037!y\\371\\374+

  Which doesn't follow the json spec.

  Alan DeKok.