From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-09-23T03:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing LDAP jpegPhoto attribute in Ruby...

On 9/22/06, augustf@gmail.com <augustf@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>     In writing my Ruby LDAP application, I'm able (with activeldap) to
> access any ldap attribute I need - except binary ones. user.uid, for
> instance would get me the userid of the user. But user.jpegPhoto yields
> binary rubbish.
>

Have you tried querying this attribute with the Net::LDAP library? It
recently acquired some significant improvements in how it handles
binary attributes. I can tell you from my own research that some
versions of the native-code LDAP libraries (which Ruby/LDAP and
ActiveLDAP are based on) have some possibly incorrect behavior with
regard to binary values.