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Get Certificate Chain Certs

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Demonstrates how to get the certs in the chain of authentication for a certificate loaded from the Windows certificate store.

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IncludeFile "CkCertChain.pb"
IncludeFile "CkCert.pb"

Procedure ChilkatExample()

    success.i = 0

    cert.i = CkCert::ckCreate()
    If cert.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    ; This example will get the SSL server certificate for tools.chilkat.io
    ; which we happen to have locally installed in our Windows certificate store.
    success = CkCert::ckLoadByCommonName(cert,"tools.chilkat.io")
    If success = 0
        Debug CkCert::ckLastErrorText(cert)
        CkCert::ckDispose(cert)
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    chain.i = CkCertChain::ckCreate()
    If chain.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    success = CkCert::ckBuildCertChain(cert,chain)
    If success = 0
        Debug CkCert::ckLastErrorText(cert)
        CkCert::ckDispose(cert)
        CkCertChain::ckDispose(chain)
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    certInChain.i = CkCert::ckCreate()
    If certInChain.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    numCerts.i = CkCertChain::ckNumCerts(chain)
    i.i = 0
    While i < numCerts
        CkCertChain::ckCertAt(chain,i,certInChain)
        Debug Str(i + 1) + ": " + CkCert::ckSubjectCN(certInChain)

        ; Get this certificate in base64 format
        b64.s = CkCert::ckGetEncoded(certInChain)
        Debug b64

        i = i + 1
    Wend

    ; The output of the above code is:

    ; 1: tools.chilkat.io
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    ; 2: Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
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    ; 3: USERTrust RSA Certification Authority
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    ; 
    ; 4: AAA Certificate Services
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    CkCert::ckDispose(cert)
    CkCertChain::ckDispose(chain)
    CkCert::ckDispose(certInChain)


    ProcedureReturn
EndProcedure