How to change the user image using cfldap? - coldfusion

Question

I'm able to get all the values that I want from cfldap.
But when I try to update the user image I don't know how to send the correct value for the binary image attribute.
I tried getting the image variable from the cffile upload
<cffile action="UPLOAD" filefield="file" destination="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test" nameconflict="OVERWRITE" result="image" />
Also tried using cfimage with a static image -
<cfimage action="read" source="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test\image.png" name="anotherImage">
Or even with
<cffile action="READBINARY" file="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test\image.png" variable="BinaryImageContent">
But in any case, when I call
<cfldap action="modify"
DN="#results.dn#"
attributes="thumbnailPhoto=#obj.image#"
modifytype="replace"
server="myserver"
username="mydomain\myuser"
password="mypass">
The #results.dn# is the DN from the user that I get before (Everything ok on that)
I created the #obj.image# to be able to try all types of variables
Also tried these params:
<cfset obj.test1 = BinaryImageContent />
<cfdump var="#imageGetBlob(anotherImage)#" />
<cfdump var="#toString(obj.test1)#" />
By the way, the error that I get its
One or more of the required attributes may be missing or incorrect or
you do not have permissions to execute this operation on the server.
The problem is that I'm using the domain administrator account to update that
(THIS ERROR IS SOLVED - The network guys hadn't given me this permission... now I have it).
Now what I'm using is the following:
<cffile action="UPLOAD" filefield="file" destination="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test" nameconflict="OVERWRITE" result="imagem" />
<cfset filename = "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\test\#imagem.serverFile#">
<cffile action="readbinary" file="#filename#" variable="img">
<cfset imgStr = BinaryEncode(img, "hex")>
<cfset imgStr2 = REReplace(imgStr, "..", "\\\0", "ALL")>
<cfldap
action="modify"
DN="#results.dn#"
attributes="thumbnailPhoto=#imgStr2#"
modifytype="replace"
server="myserver"
username="mydomain\myuser"
password="mypass"
>
but I get this binary code
Whats strange, is that before I had a binary code like -1-41 and now, nothing similar...
and when I try to show the pic
And this is one correct image....

Answer 1

EDIT: The original code sample below shows how it could work if ColdFusion wouldn't have a bug (or "very unfortunate design decision") in CFLDAP.
CFLDAP encodes the parameter values you pass to it before sending them to the server. This is nice because you don't have to worry about value encoding. But... it is also not helpful because it means you can't send encoded values yourself anymore, since CF invariably encodes them again.
Bottom line: As far as LDAP is concerned, encoding a file into a hex-string is correct, but CFLDAP mangles that string before sending it to the server. Combined with the fact that CFLDAP does not accept raw binary data this means that you can't use it to update binary attributes.
The comments contain a suggestion for a 3rd-party command line tool that can easily substitute CFLDAP for this task.
You need to send an encoded string to the server as the attribute value. The encoding scheme for binary data in LDAP queries has the form of attribute=\01\02\03\ab\af\cd.
Read your image into a byte array, encode that array into a hex string and prefix every encoded byte with a backslash.
<cffile action="readbinary" file="#filename#" variable="img">
<cfset imgStr = BinaryEncode(img, "hex")>
<cfset imgStr = REReplace(imgStr, "..", "\\\0", "ALL")>
<cfldap
action="modify"
DN="#results.dn#"
attributes="thumbnailPhoto=#imgStr#"
modifytype="replace"
server="myserver"
username="mydomain\myuser"
password="mypass"
>
Also don't forget what the documentation has to say about modifyType.