(Visual FoxPro) Get Issuer Certificate Information

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A certificate contains information about its issuer. This example demonstrates how to get the issuer information from a certificate.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

LOCAL loCert
LOCAL lnSuccess

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Cert')
loCert = CreateObject('Chilkat.Cert')

lnSuccess = loCert.LoadFromFile("qa_data/certs/sample.cer")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loCert.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loCert
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Get issuer information:

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* (Not all subject fields may exist depending on the issuer certificate.)
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* Issuer DN (Distinguished Name, i.e. all the Issuer subject parts)
? "DN: " + loCert.IssuerDN

* Common Subject parts:
* Issuer Common Name
? "CN: " + loCert.IssuerCN

* Issuer Country
? "C: " + loCert.IssuerC

* Issuer Email address
? "E: " + loCert.IssuerE

* Issuer Locality
? "L: " + loCert.IssuerL

* Issuer Organization
? "O: " + loCert.IssuerO

* Issuer Organizational Unit
? "OU: " + loCert.IssuerOU

* Issuer State
? "S: " + loCert.IssuerS

RELEASE loCert