Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Use a Custom Set of Trusted Root Certificates

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Demonstrates how to build a set of trusted root certificates to be used globally by all Chilkat classes. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

trustedRoots = Chilkat::CkTrustedRoots.new()

#   Indicate that we will NOT trust any pre-installed certificates on the system.
trustedRoots.put_TrustSystemCaRoots(false)

#  Thawte is a certificate authority that provides a .zip download of their
#  root CA certificates:  https://www.thawte.com/roots/index.html
#  The direct download link is: https://www.verisign.com/support/thawte-roots.zip
#  Note: The above URLs are valid at the time of writing this example (29-May-2015).

#  Assuming the .zip has already been downloaded, open it and load each .pem file into
#  our trusted roots object.
zip = Chilkat::CkZip.new()

#  Open a .zip containing PEM files, among other things..
success = zip.OpenZip("qa_data/certs/thawte-roots.zip")
if (success == false)
    print zip.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

entry = Chilkat::CkZipEntry.new()

cert = Chilkat::CkCert.new()

pattern = "*.pem"
bHasMoreEntries = zip.EntryMatching(pattern,entry)
while bHasMoreEntries == true

    print "Entry: " + entry.fileName() + "\n";

    #  Get the PEM of the CA cert:
    pemStr = entry.unzipToString(0,"utf-8")

    #  Load it into a certificate object:
    success = cert.LoadPem(pemStr)
    if (success != true)
        print cert.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    end

    #  Add it to the trusted roots.
    trustedRoots.AddCert(cert)

    bHasMoreEntries = entry.GetNextMatch(pattern)
end

#   Activate the trusted roots globally for all Chilkat objects.
#   This call really shouldn't fail, so we're not checking the return value.
success = trustedRoots.Activate()