Re: [PATCH] add gnutls_certificate_find_issuer

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

Joe Orton wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:21:50AM +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> > This patch adds a function which finds the issuer of a given certificate 
> > within a credentials structure.  This is useful so that clients can 
> > easily recreate the complete server cert chain given only the single 
> > cert returned by the peer.
> >
> > (e.g. in the case where gnutls_certificate_set_x509_trust_file() is 
> > used, the client doesn't have the individual issuer cert structures to 
> > compare against directly.)
> >
> > This and the previously submitted patch allow the two remaining failures 
> > in neon's SSL test suite to be fixed :)
>
> The patch submitted for this had a typo and wouldn't compile; here's an 
> updated version:

Hello Joe,
 In which case is a function like this needed? I'm thinking maybe 
exporting the included structures that would need, would better than 
having functions to perform operations on them.

regards,
Nikos