How to find the SSL certificate's expiration.
 

Hello all,

I would like to write a script running on a client to determine the
expiration date of a web server's SSL certificate. But I do not know
how to. Can anybody give me a hint.

Thanks in advance for your information.

Tuan

Re: How to find the SSL certificate's expiration.
 

perlnovice wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to write a script running on a client to determine the
> expiration date of a web server's SSL certificate. But I do not know
> how to. Can anybody give me a hint.

Hint: Start by searching the internet! Learn to use google.

Just for fun, after spending only a few minutes, I found:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mon@linu.../msg01187.html

Re: How to find the SSL certificate's expiration.
 

On 11 May 2004 12:16:46 -0700, perlnovice wrote:
> I would like to write a script running on a client to determine the
> expiration date of a web server's SSL certificate. But I do not know
> how to. Can anybody give me a hint.

One way to do it is to use Net::SSLeay module available from CPAN.


#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use Net::SSLeay;

$site = shift || die "Usage: $0 URL\n";
(undef, undef, undef, $server_cert) = &Net::SSLeay::get_https3($site, 443, '/');

if ( defined ($server_cert) ) {
$from = Net::SSLeay::X509_get_notBefore($server_cert);
print Net::SSLeay::P_ASN1_UTCTIME_put2string($from), "\n";

$to = Net::SSLeay::X509_get_notAfter($server_cert);
print Net::SSLeay::P_ASN1_UTCTIME_put2string($to);
}
__END__



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