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Load a CSR and Examine the Contents

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Demonstrates how to load a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and examine the contents.

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $csr = Chilkat2::Csr->new;

# Load a CSR PEM file.  The file should contain content that looks like this:
#
#     -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
#     MIIC6jCCAdICAQAwgaQxITAfBgNVBAMMGG15c3ViZG9tYWluLm15ZG9tYWluLmNv
#     bTELMAkGA1UEBhMCR0IxDjAMBgNVBAgMBVlvcmtzMQ0wCwYDVQQHDARZb3JrMSEw
#     HwYDVQQKDBhJbnRlcm5ldCBXaWRnaXRzIFB0eSBMdGQxCzAJBgNVBAsMAklUMSMw
#     IQYJKoZIhvcNAQkBFhRzdXBwb3J0QG15ZG9tYWluLmNvbTCCASIwDQYJKoZIhvcN
#     AQEBBQADggEPADCCAQoCggEBALnQ0un/wF8whk+gPuiAlf3qvx14jgAOV6Erm6EB
#     H7WACPCpnKcm/8KP+7uoPiwRQaENhMeCgf45vcivl2p6aAn/spLXyEkXyw2d8wFb
#     YYAGRkiz4Xf7ASJiKuwcOtORz+sSDzgtdfokHfXU1cYeFE2yQhSdLUY5fMn425+g
#     KoEEsRSjSDe6AKru4+4iGNrLKd8pB9IA5/jOE139IkWlB9r5fEPD5bUTsgqXk9eb
#     68O0gc712V2eZK07N24lDmFC4bIMTD4csDWocR5hFHXj7NX7c8sOBDcpEb9mPIk4
#     elxubnhkfnjhOi4J3lDHcT/0ALnbLhf9LnaiKqs+5VcVZvECAwEAAaAAMA0GCSqG
#     SIb3DQEBBQUAA4IBAQC0AETLIcP3foh5nbu2hVFS8uCUNZ5hEIR1eXmYZmZoBQq2
#     26ZAoT4CZwixlggC+n7WvAXJ5Pzxpl4wLV4loTiQzaKPX1w0ERo5ZRwLy0n56oG2
#     6QG+WTViT1C8rlgtVwkCFNOXr0kSSRs8FdaPllqKxK1hxYSL7zwNpumsk39F2cDt
#     vhcekvH0V3BuGrQFm3dKN/0azW6GOod9+Vq4VzSyOe3kp15oxLBsZOFOu/REujcw
#     Tzu2jt1asQKUm60CZ9wNHpYepR0Ww40uP1slbehEaFDa6V8b60/tlHHmBbJ4/fy5
#     hJnYCvjzFz4O9VtT+JtP9ldRHWV3KpZ8ne3AjD+F
#     -----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

my $fac = Chilkat2::FileAccess->new;
my $csrPem = $fac->ReadEntireTextFile('qa_data/csr/csr1.pem', 'utf-8');

my $success = $csr->LoadCsrPem($csrPem);
if (!$success) {
    print $csr->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Examine the contents.
# If the CSR does not contain a field, the property will
# contain an empty string.

print 'Common Name: ', $csr->CommonName, "\n";

# Country Name (2 letter code)
print 'Country: ', $csr->Country, "\n";

# State or Province Name (full name)
print 'State: ', $csr->State, "\n";

# Locality Name (eg, city)
print 'Locality: ', $csr->Locality, "\n";

# Organization Name (eg, company)
print 'Company: ', $csr->Company, "\n";

# Organizational Unit Name (eg, secion/division)
print 'Company Division: ', $csr->CompanyDivision, "\n";

print 'Email Address: ', $csr->EmailAddress, "\n";