SSL follow up

[Paul Rubin]

Yogesh Chawla - PD <premiergeneration at yahoo.com> writes:
> 2) I like the idea of calling openssl in a subprocess.
>  Do you have any of those openssl commands handy?  If
> not, I can look through the documentation tommorrow.

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.