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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. Xbase++

LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oCert

nSuccess := 0

oCert := CreateObject("Chilkat.Cert")

nSuccess := oCert:LoadFromFile("qa_data/certs/sample.cer")
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oCert:LastErrorText
    oCert:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Get issuer information:

//  -----------------------------------------------------------------------
//  (Not all subject fields may exist depending on the issuer certificate.)
//  -----------------------------------------------------------------------

//  Issuer DN (Distinguished Name, i.e. all the Issuer subject parts)
? "DN: " + oCert:IssuerDN

//  Common Subject parts:
//  Issuer Common Name
? "CN: " + oCert:IssuerCN

//  Issuer Country
? "C: " + oCert:IssuerC

//  Issuer Email address
? "E: " + oCert:IssuerE

//  Issuer Locality
? "L: " + oCert:IssuerL

//  Issuer Organization
? "O: " + oCert:IssuerO

//  Issuer Organizational Unit
? "OU: " + oCert:IssuerOU

//  Issuer State
? "S: " + oCert:IssuerS

oCert:destroy()