#73 Support buddy photos from contactCard

[Peter Fales]

I noticed in the release notes that support was added for showing buddy photos with Lync 2013. We're using Lync 2010 which supports buddy photos in the official Windows client - any chance of getting that supported by Sipe with Lync 2010?

[Stefan Becker]

Buddy photos have originally been added for Lync 2010 and I remember them working with an Office 365 account back then.

I can only guess that your buddy photos are stored in AD. I remember vaguely looking at accessing information from AD via LDAP. But I was unable to find any LDAP library that could be used in SIPE code.

You might want to provide a --debug log showing the error messages.

Unless further information is provided I'll close this as "will not implement".

[Peter Fales]

I've attached the debug log file. There are number of references to photo uri's and "useADPhoto" but nothing that is obviously an error message.

[Stefan Becker]

Copied from the forum discussion [0b465de7]:

I can only assume that <displayadphoto>true</displayadphoto> means that > the photo is only stored in the Windows AD. SIPE doesn't talk to Windows > AD and I'm not sure if it is possible at all or with what effort

• I guess LDAP is required
• LDAP implementation, autodiscovery, authentication?
• portability issues if an external LDAP library needs to be used?
• test environment available?

:::sh
ldapsearch -H ldap://<ADSERVER> -b 'dc=<DOMAIN>,dc=com' -Omaxssf=0 '(msrtcsip-primaryuseraddress=sip:USER@DOMAIN.com)' -LLL thumbnailphoto

This requires valid authentication, i.e. a Kerberos TGT.

The returned thumbnailphoto attribute contains a JPEG file in a base64 encoded string.

[Peter Fales]

I don't claim to really understand all this, but I don't think it needs ldap. The log shows references to things like

<photo type="default" updated="2014-06-02T14:24:56Z"> <uri>http://faces.all.alcatel-lucent.com/l/XXXXXXX</uri><hash>3515179018l</hash></photo>

and if do a "wget http://faces.all.alcatel-lucent.com/l/XXXXX" from the command line it retreives a jpeg file with the person's photo.

[Stefan Becker]

Implemented in git commit 6b2f571. Please verify that this works for you, because none of my accounts has photo nodes in the contactCard XML.

[Peter Fales]

I think there may be a mismatch between process_incoming_notify_rlmi() (in sipe-notify.c around line 684) which passes "photo_url, hash, NULL" and sipe_buddy_update_photo() (in sipe-buddy.c around line 1741) which has "hash" first and "photo_url second"

I swapped the order of the parameters in sipe-notify.c, and now I have buddy photos! Thanks!

[Stefan Becker]

Thanks. Fixed in git commit fe8c19a

[Stefan Becker]

CLOSING