[Net-ssleay-devel] a question to you SSLeay module

[sampo at zxidp.org]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> said:

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> On 12/02/2010 01:17 PM, sampo at zxidp.org wrote:

> > If you wanted to render the variable into, say, PEM formatted certifica=

> te, you

> >=20

> > need to call appropriate OpenSSL API functions, such as Net::SSLeay::PE=

> M_write_bio_X509().

> 

> Hrm.  i don't think there is such a function, at least not in

> Net::SSLeay version 1.36 (in debian unstable currently).

> 

> however, poking around in the source shows that you can extract a

> PEM-encoded version of the certificate from such a cert object with:

> 

>   Net::SSLeay::PEM_get_string_X509($cert)

> 

> hope that's useful for you!



Thanks. Indeed, it appears I had same need years ago and wrote that function,

which internally calls PEM_write_bio_X509(), see around line 2670 in SSLeay.xs.



Had forgotten all about that one :-)



Cheers,

--Sampo



> 	--dkg

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