SSLeay / Net::SSLeay / How to see who issued the x.509 cert on a web server...

[Gerhard Häring]

In article <899f842.0205160546.6de36d7c at posting.google.com>, Anthony_Barker wrote:
> Perl has a module called Net::SSLeay that contains 
> a method Net::SSLeay::get_peer_certificate($ssl);
> 
> I think that this will allow the examination of a certificate on an
> https server. I want to get the issuer of the x.509 cert.
> 
> Does anyone know of a comparable class in python?
> 
> I investgated using curl or stunnel but didn't see a straight forward
> way of doing this.

I'd investigate pyOpenSSL (Sourceforge), M2Crypto (Google) or POW
(Sourceforge).

Gerhard