Perl Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.76+

Get Certificate Authority Information Access

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Demonstrates how to get a certificate's Authority Information Access extension data (if it exists). Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $cert = Chilkat2::Cert->new;

my $success = $cert->LoadFromFile('qa_data/certs/test_haswdt.cer');
if (!$success) {
    print $cert->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Get the Authority Information Access extension, which is at OID 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.1.1
my $extensionXmlStr = $cert->GetExtensionAsXml('1.3.6.1.5.5.7.1.1');
if (!$cert->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print "Certificate does not have the AuthInfoAccess extension.\n";
    exit;
}

my $xml = Chilkat2::Xml->new;
$xml->LoadXml($extensionXmlStr);

# See what we have..
print $xml->GetXml(), "\n";

# We should get XML like this:

# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
# <sequence>
#     <sequence>
#         <oid>1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.2</oid>
#         <contextSpecific tag="6" constructed="0">aHR0cDovL2NydC5jb21vZG9jYS5jb20vQ09NT0RPUlNBQ2xpZW50QXV0aGVudGljYXRpb25hbmRTZWN1
# cmVFbWFpbENBLmNydA==</contextSpecific>
#     </sequence>
#     <sequence>
#         <oid>1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.1</oid>
#         <contextSpecific tag="6" constructed="0">aHR0cDovL29jc3AuY29tb2RvY2EuY29t</contextSpecific>
#     </sequence>
# </sequence>

# Typically, a certificate AIA(Authority Information access) contains 2 parts:
#
#     On-line Certificate Status Protocol (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.1)
#     Certification Authority Issuer (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.2)
#
# The base64 content for each OID (in this case) is just a string.
# The data can be accessed and decoded like this:

my $sbOcsp = Chilkat2::StringBuilder->new;
$success = $xml->GetChildContentSb('/C/oid,1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.1|++', $sbOcsp);
if ($success) {
    $sbOcsp->Decode('base64', 'utf-8');
    print '1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.1:  ', $sbOcsp->GetAsString(), "\n";
}

my $sbIssuer = Chilkat2::StringBuilder->new;
$success = $xml->GetChildContentSb('/C/oid,1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.2|++', $sbIssuer);
if ($success) {
    $sbIssuer->Decode('base64', 'utf-8');
    print '1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.2:  ', $sbIssuer->GetAsString(), "\n";
}

# The output looks like this:

# 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.1:  http://ocsp.comodoca.com
# 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.2:  http://crt.comodoca.com/COMODORSAClientAuthenticationandSecureEmailCA.crt

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Note: The Chilkat path passed to GetChildContentSb is composed of two commands:
# The first command is "/C/oid,1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.1".   It says "traverse the XML tree from the caller
# node and stop at the 1st node having tag = "oid" and content = "1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.1".
# The "|" char separates the 1st command from the 2nd.
# The 2nd command is "++" and says "move to the next sibling".