(Classic ASP) Transition from Email.GetSignedByCertChain to Email.LastSignerCert

Provides instructions for replacing deprecated GetSignedByCertChain method calls with LastSignerCert.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<%
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Email")
set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")

' ...
' ...

' ------------------------------------------------------------------------
' The GetSignedByCertChain method is deprecated:

' certChainObj is a Chilkat.CertChain
Set certChainObj = email.GetSignedByCertChain()
If (email.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' ...
' ...

' ------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Do the equivalent using LastSignerCert to get the signing certificate,
' then build the cert chain from the signing certificate object.

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Cert")
set signerCert = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Cert")
success = email.LastSignerCert(0,signerCert)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Get the certificate chain from the signer certificate.
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.CertChain")
set certChain = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.CertChain")
success = signerCert.BuildCertChain(certChain)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( signerCert.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If


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