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Binary Certificate Extension Data

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Demonstrates how to binary certificate extension data by OID.

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

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

my $bd = Chilkat2::BinData->new;

# The particular certificate in this test contains the following extensions

my $oid = '1.2.250.1.71.1.2.5';
$success = $cert->GetExtensionBd($oid, $bd);
if ($success) {
    print $oid, ': ', $bd->GetEncoded('hex_lower'), "\n";
}

$oid = '1.2.250.1.71.1.2.2';
$success = $cert->GetExtensionBd($oid, $bd);
if ($success) {
    print $oid, ': ', $bd->GetEncoded('hex_lower'), "\n";
}

$oid = '1.2.250.1.71.1.2.3';
$success = $cert->GetExtensionBd($oid, $bd);
if ($success) {
    print $oid, ': ', $bd->GetEncoded('hex_lower'), "\n";
}

$oid = '1.2.250.1.71.1.2.7';
$success = $cert->GetExtensionBd($oid, $bd);
if ($success) {
    print $oid, ': ', $bd->GetEncoded('hex_lower'), "\n";
}

$oid = '1.2.250.1.71.4.2.5';
$success = $cert->GetExtensionBd($oid, $bd);
if ($success) {
    print $oid, ': ', $bd->GetEncoded('hex_lower'), "\n";
}

# Sample output:
# 1.2.250.1.71.1.2.5: 040180
# 1.2.250.1.71.1.2.2: 020100
# 1.2.250.1.71.1.2.3: 1315383032353030303030312f32393030303539313432
# 1.2.250.1.71.1.2.7: 02010a
# 1.2.250.1.71.4.2.5: 30060c04534d3236

# The above binary values are actually ASN.1
# You can get the ASN.1 decoed by calling GetExtensionAsXml to get it in XML format,
# and then you extract the values from the XML.

$oid = '1.2.250.1.71.1.2.5';
my $strXml = $cert->GetExtensionAsXml($oid);
if ($cert->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $oid, ': ', $strXml, "\n";
}

$oid = '1.2.250.1.71.1.2.2';
$strXml = $cert->GetExtensionAsXml($oid);
if ($cert->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $oid, ': ', $strXml, "\n";
}

$oid = '1.2.250.1.71.1.2.3';
$strXml = $cert->GetExtensionAsXml($oid);
if ($cert->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $oid, ': ', $strXml, "\n";
}

$oid = '1.2.250.1.71.1.2.7';
$strXml = $cert->GetExtensionAsXml($oid);
if ($cert->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $oid, ': ', $strXml, "\n";
}

$oid = '1.2.250.1.71.4.2.5';
$strXml = $cert->GetExtensionAsXml($oid);
if ($cert->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $oid, ': ', $strXml, "\n";
}

# Sample output:
# 1.2.250.1.71.1.2.5: <octets>gA==</octets>
# 1.2.250.1.71.1.2.2: <int>00</int>
# 1.2.250.1.71.1.2.3: <printable>8025000001/2900059142</printable>
# 1.2.250.1.71.1.2.7: <int>0A</int>
# 1.2.250.1.71.4.2.5: <sequence><utf8>SM26</utf8></sequence>

# "gA==" is the base64 encoded byte values
# "0A" is hex for decimal 10