Hi monks!

I have written a web app that I want to be able to upload pics into ldap. Gif's work just fine, but jpeg's aren't. Apache log says: "gd-jpeg: JPEG library reports unrecoverable error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x47 0x3a". I used File::Type to test the data type and for both gif's & jpeg's, it returns "application/octet-stream". I'm assuming the gif library can handle "application/octet-stream", but the jpeg lib can't??? Is there a way I can get this to work for both jpegs & gif's or am I going with the wrong approach? 

sub uploadPhoto{
        my $self = shift;
        my $q = $self->query;
        my $admin=($self->session->param('membership') =~ /$Intranet::
+Web::CONFIG{securityldapsuper}/);
        my $jpegimg='';
        my $photo = $q->upload('photo');
        my $dn=$q->param('dn');
        if($photo && $admin && $dn){
                binmode($photo);
                my $ft = File::Type->new();
#                return "type=".$ft->checktype_contents($photo); #used
+ for testing
                my $image = GD::Image->newFromGif($photo);
                unless($image){$image = GD::Image->newFromJpegData($ph
+oto);#tried this and newFromJpeg with the same result
                unless($image){return "Not a valid gif or jpeg file.";
+}}
                $jpegimg=$image->jpeg();
                undef $image;
                unless($jpegimg){return "Problem uploading image.";}
                my $ldap=Net::LDAP->new($Intranet::Web::CONFIG{ldaphos
+t}) or die "error connecting to LDAP $Intranet::Web::CONFIG{ldaphost}
+: $@\n";
                my $mesg=$ldap->bind($Intranet::Web::CONFIG{ldapuser},
+ password=>$Intranet::Web::CONFIG{ldappassword}) or die "error bindin
+g: $@\n";

                if($jpegimg){
                        my $mesg1=$ldap->modify($dn,replace=>{jpegPhot
+o=> $jpegimg,thumbnailPhoto=>$jpegimg, });
                        $mesg1->code && die $mesg1->error;
                }
                $ldap->unbind;
        }
        return "Photo uploaded".(length($jpegimg));
}

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and my html: 
<form name='photoForm' action='[% userbase %]/ldap.pl' enctype="multip
+art/form-data" method='post' id='photoForm'>
      <input type="hidden" name="rm" value="getDetailUser">
      <input type="hidden" name="upload" value="0">
      <input type="hidden" name="dn" value="[% user.dn %]">
      <input type="file" name='photo'> <input type="button" value='Upl
+oad' onclick='this.form.upload.value=1;this.form.submit();'>
</form>

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In reply to Uploading pics to ldap through webapp by ksublondie

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