Re: (ITS#7398) Retrieve LDAP server cert

[hyc@symas.com]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:43:42 -0700 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote
>> michael@stroeder.com wrote:
>>> Feature request:
>>> When using LDAPS or StartTLS it would be sometimes handy to retrieve the
>>> LDAP server certificate over the LDAP client API.
>>>
>>> Opinions?
>>
>> And then what? I think it'd be straightforward for us to return a copy of it
>> in DER binary format. What do clients need to do with it?
>
> In my case (web2ldap): Simply display it to the user.

Probably would have been easier to just return the signature.

> If it's not too much work this would be a handy feature.

Added in master, please test - I have not tested any of this.

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