SSL follow up

Michael Ströder michael at stroeder.com
Thu Oct 26 13:07:28 EDT 2006


Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> To dump out the certificate?  Try:
> 
>    openssl x509 -text -in filename.crt
> 
> if the cert is in a file.  Omit that -in parameter if you want openssl
> to read from stdin.  Of course now you get this other text format
> thing to parse, but it's not so bad.

I wouldn't recommend that. Actually I tried one time. Use a decent
module instead which parses certs for you. I wrote one myself for web2ldap.

Ciao, Michael.



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