Request.Certificate

ASP Reference

Request.Certificate([item][key])

Used to retrieve details of the client's digital certificate (SSL). [Item] retrieves the value a specified item such as 'Request.Certificate.Item("Issuer")'.[key] can be used to retrieve the value of an item using its numeric reference.

[key] has the following values:

Certificate - contains the entire binary output from the certificate.

Flags - provides additional information about the certificate using constants defined if the include file 'cervbs.inc' is included.

Issuer - Returns a comma delimited list of the issuer values.

SerialNumber - Returns the certificate's serial number.

Subject - Comma-delimitted string giving information about the owner of the certificate.

ValidFrom - The date the certificate is valid from.

ValidUntil - The date the certificate is valid to.

All of the previous keys can also contain subkey where a comma-delimited list is given, for example 'Request.Certificate("Issuer0")' might return Verisign as the certificate's issuer.