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Re: I want the SSL certificate expiration date

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:03:55 +0200 (MET DST)

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Lars Karlsson I/OKD wrote:

> I tried to find a way to collect the SSL certificate expiration dates for
> all our web servers. I felt convinced that curl could do this task, but
> after checking through the web site, mail groups etc, documentation,
> resource, I decided I did not find such a feature.

True, curl does not have such a feature.

> If somebody has a clue how to get the certificate expiration date using
> curl or libcurl I would be thankful.

There is none.

> I have verified you can get the certification information including
> expire date using Netscape Navigator.

Curl uses OpenSSL for the SSL stuff. If you can help me figure out how to dig
out that information using OpenSSL I'll gladly add that to at least libcurl
so that it can be extracted with future releases of it...

-- 
      Daniel Stenberg - http://daniel.haxx.se - +46-705-44 31 77
   ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol
Received on 2000-07-24