Paul Rubin phr-n2002a at nightsong.com
Fri Jan 18 20:01:26 EST 2002

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Sherman <noemail at none.com> writes:
> Is there a way to validate the secure certificate of a remote site? Or
> possibly just grab the certificate information? I haven't been able to
> find much on this, so any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

What do you mean by "validate"?  Of course you can check the
signature-- that's the whole point of a certificate.  And most SSL
libraries can parse the certificate so you can read the contents.
I don't know what the situation for Python bindings to OpenSSL is
right now, though.

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