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_cert));
Crazy! In other news, DateTime::Format::Strptime is shiny...
It's a C wrapper
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?
Net::SSLeay is nasty
Dom2 on 2004-01-27T13:23:37
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 by accident. The one that I'd never seen because CPAN installed it. Doh.
-Dom
Easy modules
jhorwitz on 2004-01-27T16:43:42
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 volunteering...
:)
Re:Easy modules
TeeJay on 2004-01-27T17:43:59
yup - this is why I created BagOfTricks for XML::Xerces.
