how to display photo from active directory in classic asp - asp-classic

Question

how to display photo from active directory in classic asp?
I can log on to our AD and query user name telephone ect from a calssic asp page. the thumbnail photo field just returns a string, how do I format that to diaplay photo in classic asp please?

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly, you would get the image file in binary using FileSystemObject and use response.contenttype = "image/jpeg" when you return the data of the image so it renders the content as an image.

Answer 2

You can also render the photo inline in an image:
...img src=[base64 presentation of the image]>...
HTML image tag with base64 string (data URI)

Answer 3

You can do it by using html img tag. for example:
<img src="<%=myPhotoUrl%>">
In asp code block, you must declare it as:
<%
Response.Write "<img src=""" & myPhotoUrl & """>"
%>

Answer 4

So the answer I have come up with that works is:
strUsername = request.querystring("req")
strUserRole = request.querystring("rol")
Set objDomain = GetObject ("GC://rootDSE")
objADsPath = objDomain.Get("defaultNamingContext")
Set objDomain = Nothing
Set con = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
con.provider ="ADsDSOObject"
con.Properties("User ID") = "XXXXXXXXXXX"
con.Properties("Password") = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
con.Properties("Encrypt Password") = False
con.open "Active Directory Provider"
Set Com = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set Com.ActiveConnection = con
Com.CommandText ="select name,telephonenumber,mail,thumbnailPhoto, Department, title FROM 'GC://"+objADsPath+"' where sAMAccountname='"+strUsername+"'"
Set rs = Com.Execute
if not rs.eof then
tmpphoto=rs("thumbnailPhoto")
tmpdept=rs("Department")
tmptitle=rs("title")
name=rs("name")
telephonenumber=rs("telephonenumber")
mail=rs("mail")
NameArr = Split(name, " ")
cname = NameArr(0)
sname = NameArr(1)
rs.Close
con.Close
Set rs = Nothing
Set con = Nothing
%>
<div id="card"><img src="badge.jpg" width="100%"/>
<div id="personname"><%=cname & " " & sname%></div>
<div id="persongroup"><%=tmptitle%></div>
<div id="persondept"><%=tmpdept%></div>
<div id="personrole"><%=strUserRole%></div>
<div id="personimage">
<img src="getaduserimage.asp?req=NAME.SURNAME" width="100" height="100" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" />
</div>
<div id="logoimage"><img src="OUR_logo_white_small.png" width="100"/></div>
<%
else
cname = strUsername & " Not found"
end if
%>
<% 'getaduserimage.asp file contains:
strUsername = request.querystring("req")
Set objDomain = GetObject ("GC://rootDSE")
objADsPath = objDomain.Get("defaultNamingContext")
Set objDomain = Nothing
Set con = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
con.provider ="ADsDSOObject"
con.Properties("User ID") = "xxxxxx"
con.Properties("Password") = "xxxxxxxx"
con.Properties("Encrypt Password") = False
con.open "Active Directory Provider"
Set Com = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set Com.ActiveConnection = con
Com.CommandText ="select thumbnailPhoto FROM 'GC://"+objADsPath+"' where sAMAccountname='"+strUsername+"'"
Set rs = Com.Execute
Response.Expires = 0
Response.Buffer = TRUE
Response.Clear
Response.ContentType = "image/jpeg"
'#### Assuming your images are jpegs
if not rs.eof then
Response.BinaryWrite rs("thumbnailPhoto")
else
response.write "image for " & strUsername & " Not found"
end if
rs.Close
con.Close
Set rs = Nothing
Set con = Nothing
%>