Perl

Set a TLS Client Certificate for IMAP

Demonstrates the Chilkat Imap.SetSslClientCert method, which supplies a client certificate for TLS client-certificate authentication. The only argument is a Cert object that must provide access to its private key. Call it before connecting. This example loads the certificate from a PFX file.

Note: The certificate path is relative to the application's current working directory. Supply the path to your own certificate file.

Background: Most IMAP servers authenticate with a username and password only. A few high-security deployments additionally require mutual TLS, where the client presents its own certificate during the handshake. Because that happens as part of connecting, the certificate must be set before Connect — setting it afterward has no effect on the already-established connection.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the Imap.SetSslClientCert method, which supplies a client certificate for TLS
#  client-certificate authentication.  The only argument is a Cert object.  It must be called
#  before connecting.

$imap = chilkat::CkImap->new();

$imap->put_Ssl(1);
$imap->put_Port(993);

#  The PFX password is not hard-coded in source.  Insert code here to obtain it from an
#  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.

#  Load the client certificate (and its private key) from a PFX file.
$cert = chilkat::CkCert->new();
$success = $cert->LoadPfxFile("qa_data/client.pfx",$pfxPassword);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $cert->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Provide the client certificate BEFORE connecting.
$success = $imap->SetSslClientCert($cert);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $imap->Connect("imap.example.com");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $imap->Login('user@example.com',"myPassword");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $imap->Disconnect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $imap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}