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

SSL meta data

2006-09-25 Thread BerndWill
Hello everybody, please help me with this topic: Working at a big company (+100.000 employees worldwide), we have an amount of data centers and shared services where our webservers, backend server etc. are located. Now it happens from time to time, that certificates are expired and instead