Getting info out of certificates

Tricia.Roweth@axa-sunlife.co.uk
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:45:40 +0100

From: Tricia.Roweth@axa-sunlife.co.uk
To: java-security@java.sun.com
Message-Id: <802567B6.0024D0AE.00@10.7.40.1>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:45:40 +0100
Subject: Getting info out of certificates

I am wanting to write a servlet which pulls out information from a digital
certificate. The certificate is being passed to an html page on a netscape
enterprise 3.6 server. The page then calls a servlet in which I would like
to do some validation.

I'm not sure how I can 'grab' the certificate let alone decode it.

I'm using java 1.1, and Jrun2.3.2 to run the servlets.

Please help - I'm really struggling to find this information

Tricia Roweth

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