Re: SSL meta data

2006-09-26 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BerndWill wrote: > The only solution from me and my colleagues view (as poor at it sounds) > is to setup a little python script "pinging" an amount of about 2.000 > servers in daily intervals checking for the validity of those SSL > certificates. There's no need t

Re: SSL meta data

2006-09-25 Thread BerndWill
Thanks Jan. I will try pycurl then. Regards Bernd "Jan Dries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Paul Rubin wrote: >> "BerndWill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I would love to read programmatically some information out of the >>> certificates itself (who signe

Re: SSL meta data

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Rubin
Jan Dries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > C:\> curl -v https://www.paypal.com > > I'm sure that by using the cURL API directly, you can obtain the > certificate information in a more direct way without having to rely on > parsing the above output with regexps. Doing so might also be more > complex t

Re: SSL meta data

2006-09-25 Thread Jan Dries
Paul Rubin wrote: > "BerndWill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I would love to read programmatically some information out of the >> certificates itself (who signed it and what is the validation period, i.e. >> meta data). >> >> Can someone please help me out here !? > > This is very cheesy but

Re: SSL meta data

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Rubin
"BerndWill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would love to read programmatically some information out of the > certificates itself (who signed it and what is the validation period, i.e. > meta data). > > Can someone please help me out here !? This is very cheesy but I sometimes I've just run th