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openssl_x509_read

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

openssl_x509_readAnalyse un certificat X.509 et retourne un objet

Description

openssl_x509_read(OpenSSLCertificate|string $certificate): OpenSSLCertificate|false

openssl_x509_read() analyse le certificat certificate et retourne un objet OpenSSLCertificate pour celui-ci.

Liste de paramètres

certificate

Certificat X509. Voir paramètres clés/certificats pour la liste des valeurs valides.

Valeurs de retour

Retourne un OpenSSLCertificate en cas de succès ou false si une erreur survient.

Historique

Version Description
8.0.0 En cas de succès, cette fonction retourne désormais une instance de OpenSSLCertificate ; auparavant, une ressource de type OpenSSL X.509 était retournée.
8.0.0 certificate accepte désormais une instance de OpenSSLCertificate ; auparavant, une ressource de type OpenSSL X.509 était acceptée.
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marc theat nwd thedot mx
13 years ago
To get the real timestamps as integer values for the validity daterange you can use as follows:

<?php
$data
= openssl_x509_parse(file_get_contents('/path/to/cert.crt'));

$validFrom = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $data['validFrom_time_t']);
$validTo ) date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $data['validTo_time_t']);

echo
$validFrom . "\n";
echo
$validTo . "\n";

?>
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Anonymous
21 years ago
After some tests I've been able to get some results this way ...

<?php

$fp
= fopen("/etc/httpd/conf/ssl/moncertif.crt", "r");
$cert = fread($fp, 8192);
fclose($fp);

echo
"Read<br>";
echo
openssl_x509_read($cert);
echo
"<br>";
echo
"*********************";
echo
"<br>";
echo
"Parse<br>";
print_r(openssl_x509_parse($cert));
/*
// or
print_r(openssl_x509_parse( openssl_x509_read($cert) ) );
*/

?>

enjoy
;)
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anthony dot whitehead at rfv dot sfa dot se
21 years ago
Short HOWTO for getting data out of a client certificate via an SSL enabled iPlanet (Netscape Enterprise or Sun ONE) web server.

The iPlanet server sets $_SERVER["CLIENT_CERT"] whenever a client authenticates with a certificate. This variable contains an encoded representation of the certificate presented by the client. This in itself is useless to scripts or applications, we need to extract the actual information from the encoding. It turns out that we are in luck, the encoding is NEARLY a standard PEM encoding which can be read by the openssl_x509_read() function. A standard PEM has a begin line, an end line and inbetween is a base64 encoding of the DER representation of the certificate. PEM requires that linefeeds be present every 64 characters, however this is already the case with our CLIENT_CERT variable. For some reason the iPlanet server neglects to attach the begin and end headers, all that is required to allow access to the certificate is replacing these headers. Here is a small code excerpt for doing just that and printing out the raw certificate data.

<?php
$beginpem
= "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\n";
$endpem = "-----END CERTIFICATE-----\n";

// Small function to print the data recursivly.
function print_element($item, $key)
{
if(
is_array( $item ) )
{
echo
"$key is Array:\n";
array_walk( $item, 'print_element' );
echo
"$key done\n";
}
else
echo
"$key = $item\n";
}

// Build the PEM string.
$pemdata = $beginpem.$_SERVER["CLIENT_CERT"]."\n".$endpem;

// Get a certificate resource from the PEM string.
$cert = openssl_x509_read( $pemdata );

// Parse the resource and print out the contents.
$cert_data = openssl_x509_parse( $cert );
array_walk( $cert_data, 'print_element' );

// Free the resource
openssl_x509_free( $cert );
?>
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