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Get Certificates within XML Signature

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Demonstrates how to get the certificates contained within an XML signature.

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

my $sbXml = Chilkat2::StringBuilder->new;

# Load XML containing one or more signatures.
my $success = $sbXml->LoadFile('qa_data/xml_dsig_valid_samples/multipleSigners/sp.pdf.XAdES.xml', 'utf-8');
if (!$success) {
    print "Failed to load the XML file..\n";
    exit;
}

my $dsig = Chilkat2::XmlDSig->new;

# First load the XML containing the signatures to be verified.
# Note that this particular Signature already contains the RSA public key that will be used
# for verification.
$success = $dsig->LoadSignatureSb($sbXml);
if (!$success) {
    print $dsig->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# For each signature, verify and also get the certificate(s) contained within each Signature.
my $i = 0;
my $saCerts = Chilkat2::StringArray->new;
my $cert = Chilkat2::Cert->new;

print 'numSignatures = ', $dsig->NumSignatures, "\n";

while ($i < $dsig->NumSignatures) {
    # Select the Nth signature by setting the Selector property.
    $dsig->Selector($i);

    my $bVerifyReferenceDigests = 1;
    my $bVerified = $dsig->VerifySignature($bVerifyReferenceDigests);
    print 'Signature ', ($i + 1), ' verified = ', ($bVerified ? 1 : 0), "\n";

    # Get the certificates embedded in this signature.
    $saCerts->Clear();
    $success = $dsig->GetCerts($saCerts);
    if ($success) {
        my $j = 0;
        while ($j < $saCerts->Count) {
            $success = $cert->LoadFromBase64($saCerts->GetString($j));
            if ($success) {
                print '    ', $cert->SubjectDN, "\n";
            }

            $j = $j + 1;
        }
    }

    $i = $i + 1;
}