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neon API reference                        NE_SSL_CERT_IDENTITY(3)



NAME
     ne_ssl_cert_identity, ne_ssl_cert_signedby,
     ne_ssl_cert_issuer, ne_ssl_cert_subject - functions to
     access certificate properties

SYNOPSIS
     #include 

     const char
                                      *ne_ssl_cert_identity(const ne_ssl_certificate *cert);

     const ne_ssl_certificate
                                                    *ne_ssl_cert_signedby(const ne_ssl_certificate *cert);

     const ne_ssl_dname
                                             *ne_ssl_cert_subject(const ne_ssl_certificate *cert);

     const ne_ssl_dname
                                            *ne_ssl_cert_issuer(const ne_ssl_certificate *cert);

DESCRIPTION
     The function ne_ssl_cert_identity retrieves the identity of
     a certificate; for an SSL server certificate, this will be
     the hostname for which the certificate was issued. In PKI
     parlance, the identity is the common name attribute of the
     distinguished name of the certificate subject.

     The functions ne_ssl_cert_subject and ne_ssl_cert_issuer can
     be used to access the objects representing the distinguished
     name of the subject and of the issuer of a certificate,
     respectively.

     If a certificate object is part of a certificate chain, then
     ne_ssl_cert_signedby can be used to find the certificate
     which signed a particular certificate. For a self-signed
     certificate or a certificate for which the full chain is not
     available, this function will return NULL.

RETURN VALUE
     ne_ssl_cert_issuer and ne_ssl_cert_subject are guaranteed to
     never return NULL.  ne_ssl_cert_identity may return NULL if
     the certificate has no specific identity.
     ne_ssl_cert_signedby may return NULL as covered above.

EXAMPLES
     The following function could be used to display information
     about a given certificate:

         void dump_cert(const ne_ssl_certificate *cert) {
           const char *id = ne_ssl_cert_identity(cert);
           char *dn;




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neon API reference                        NE_SSL_CERT_IDENTITY(3)



           if (id)
             printf("Certificate was issued for '%s'.\n", id);

           dn = ne_ssl_readable_dname(ne_ssl_cert_subject(cert));
           printf("Subject: %s\n", dn);
           free(dn);

           dn = ne_ssl_readable_dname(ne_ssl_cert_issuer(cert));
           printf("Issuer: %s\n", dn);
           free(dn);
         }

SEE ALSO
     ne_ssl_cert_cmp, ne_ssl_readable_dname

AUTHOR
     Joe Orton 
         Author.

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