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Get Certificate CRL Distribution Points

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Demonstrates how to get a certificate's CRL Distribution Points extension data (assuming it exists). In the vast majority of cases, there will be one CRL Distribution Point.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.76 or greater.

C++

#include <CkCert.h>
#include <CkXml.h>
#include <CkStringBuilder.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkCert cert;

    success = cert.LoadFromFile("qa_data/certs/test_haswdt.cer");
    if (success != true) {
        std::cout << cert.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    // Get the CRL Distribution Points extension, which is at OID 2.5.29.31
    const char *extensionXmlStr = cert.getExtensionAsXml("2.5.29.31");
    if (cert.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        std::cout << "Certificate does not have the CDP extension." << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    CkXml xml;
    xml.LoadXml(extensionXmlStr);

    // See what we have..
    std::cout << xml.getXml() << "\r\n";

    // We should get XML like this:

    // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    // <sequence>
    //     <sequence>
    //         <contextSpecific tag="0" constructed="1">
    //             <contextSpecific tag="0" constructed="1">
    //                 <contextSpecific tag="6" constructed="0">aHR0cDovL2NybC5jb21vZG9jYS5jb20vQ09NT0RPUlNBQ2xpZW50QXV0aGVudGljYXRpb25hbmRTZWN1
    // cmVFbWFpbENBLmNybA==</contextSpecific>
    //             </contextSpecific>
    //         </contextSpecific>
    //     </sequence>
    // </sequence>
    // 

    // Assuming there is one CRL Distribution Point...
    CkStringBuilder sbDistPoint;
    success = xml.GetChildContentSb("sequence|contextSpecific|contextSpecific|contextSpecific",sbDistPoint);
    if (success == true) {
        sbDistPoint.Decode("base64","utf-8");
        std::cout << "CRL Distribution Point:  " << sbDistPoint.getAsString() << "\r\n";
    }

    // Sample output:
    // CRL Distribution Point:  http://crl.comodoca.com/COMODORSAClientAuthenticationandSecureEmailCA.crl
    }