RE: Pictures From LDAP...

[Joshua L. <Jos...@ip...>]

Excuse me for being a really naive beginer when it come to cgi but I don't
quite know how to do that exactly. I tried to do what you suggested but I
had no luck what-so-ever. Could you point me in the direction of an example
piece of code?...

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Leto [mailto:jon...@le...]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:57 AM
To: Joshua Lavalleur
Subject: Re: Pictures From LDAP...



make a cgi script that prints out the binary data, with a x-image/jpeg or
whatever
content type and do this:

<img src=/cgi-bin/printpicfromldap.cgi?showpic=blah>



 Joshua Lavalleur (Jos...@ip...) was saying:

> In that case could you point me to a web mailing list that actually has
> people that use LDAP and the web together
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Barr [mailto:gb...@po...]
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 9:57 AM
> To: Joshua Lavalleur
> Cc: Perl-Ldap-Dev (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Pictures From LDAP...
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:39:44AM -0700, Joshua Lavalleur wrote:
> > Okay I got how to get a picture from the directory server which turned
out
> > to be easy...
> > 
> > Now I need to figure out how to display it in a web page. I figure I
have
> to
> > convert the binary stream somehow but I am not sure. 
> > 
> > I tried the following and got a lot of alien characters in my page.
> > 
> > $content = $entry->get('photo');
> > print "<img src=$content>";
> 
> the src= needs to be a url, which when that url is requested you get the
> image from the server and send it back with print $content (+ the
> appropriate headers)
> 
> But this is not the place to ask web-based questions. Now you know
> how to get your content, you would be much better off asking this
> question to a web mailing list.
> 
> Graham.
> 

-- 
jon...@le... 
"With pain comes clarity."