Determining SSL Authenticity

[Derek Bump]

Andre,

Thank you so much for your response.  I'm afraid I was a little unclear 
as to my intentions.  I am implementing altBrowser into one of my 
projects, and unfortunately, altBrowser does not return whether IE knows 
  if the server is secure.  I'm looking for a way of determining this 
within Revolution so I can display that on the screen.

I just looked over the built-in documentation for SSL and couldn't find 
much other than the encrypt and decrypt functions.  I need a way to 
determine if the url that altBrowser is looking at is actually secure.

Any ideas? :)


Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
www.dreamscapesoftware.com

Andre Garzia wrote:
> Derek,
> 
> if the certificate is not valid, the SSL library will return you an 
> error. Actually, in some cases, it returns an error even for valid 
> certificates... I don't know if you can find the certificate information 
> from inside Rev, if you are using MacOS X then you can use cURL or some 
> other unixland tool to query the certificate data but I never tried that.
> 
> Andre
> PS: I simply feel like answering emails today... :-)
> 
> On Jan 3, 2007, at 1:08 AM, Derek Bump wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know how to determine SSL authenticity.  For example, if 
>> I'm connected to "https://www.somedomain.com/securepage.php", other 
>> than the  "s" after http, how can I find out the certificate information?
>>
>> Or do I just trust the fact that since the "s" is after "http" that 
>> it's secure?
>>
>>
>> Derek Bump
>> Dreamscape Software
>> www.dreamscapesoftware.com
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