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Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.

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Tuesday January 27, 2004
06:00 AM

Horrrrriiibbbbllle

[ #17034 ]
I know it's a wrapper to a C library, but do I really have to write the following to get the expiry date for an SSL certificate using Net::SSLeay?

my ($p, $resp, $hdrs, $server_cert) = Net::SSLeay::get_https3($host, 443, '/');
my $expiry = Net::SSLeay::P_ASN1_UTCTIME_put2string(Net::SSLeay::X509_get_notAfter($server_ce rt));

Crazy! In other news, DateTime::Format::Strptime is shiny...


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  • It's a C wrapper (Score:3, Insightful)

    by 2shortplanks (968) on 2004.01.27 6:20 (#27775) Homepage Journal
    It's a wrapper to a C library. It should follow the C lib calling conventions as close as possible.

    Of course, then *that* should be wrapped in something nicer in Perl. Is that you volenteering Leon?

  • Whilst I agree it's a nasty interface, in place of a better one, I would settle for something documented. I was looking at the same thing as you a little while back and was >that close< to filing a bug report on RT until I stumbled over the QuickRef file [cpan.org] by accident. The one that I'd never seen because CPAN installed it. Doh.

    -Dom

  • This is becoming a common theme, but it's all good in my opinion. A few years after I released Authen::Krb5, which *mostly* conforms to the very confusing MIT Kerberos 5 API, someone (with my blessing) wrote Authen::Krb5::Easy. It's a nice Perl wrapper around Authen::Krb5 that exports simpler implementations of the API to users who don't need the whole thing. Modules like this really help people get up and running quickly. Net::SSLeay could probably use something like this (no, that wasn't me volunteeri
    • yup - this is why I created BagOfTricks for XML::Xerces.
      --

      @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
      print reverse @JAPH;
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