NAME
X509_NAME_print_ex,
X509_NAME_print_ex_fp,
X509_NAME_oneline,
X509_NAME_print —
X509_NAME printing routines
SYNOPSIS
#include
<openssl/x509.h>
int
X509_NAME_print_ex(BIO *out,
X509_NAME *nm, int indent,
unsigned long flags);
int
X509_NAME_print_ex_fp(FILE *fp,
X509_NAME *nm, int indent,
unsigned long flags);
char *
X509_NAME_oneline(X509_NAME *a,
char *buf, int size);
int
X509_NAME_print(BIO *bp,
X509_NAME *name, int obase);
DESCRIPTION
X509_NAME_print_ex()
prints a human readable version of nm to
BIO out. Each line (for
multiline formats) is indented by indent spaces. The
output format can be extensively customised by use of the
flags parameter.
X509_NAME_print_ex_fp()
is identical to X509_NAME_print_ex() except the
output is written to the FILE pointer
fp.
X509_NAME_oneline()
prints an ASCII version of a to
buf. If buf is
NULL, then a buffer is dynamically allocated and
returned, and size is ignored. Otherwise, at most
size bytes will be written, including the ending NUL,
and buf is returned.
X509_NAME_print()
prints out name to bp indenting
each line by obase characters. Multiple lines are used
if the output (including indent) exceeds 80 characters.
The functions
X509_NAME_oneline()
and X509_NAME_print() are legacy functions which
produce a non-standard output form. They don't handle multi-character fields
and have various quirks and inconsistencies. Their use is strongly
discouraged in new applications.
Although there are a large number of possible flags, for most
purposes XN_FLAG_ONELINE,
XN_FLAG_MULTILINE, or
XN_FLAG_RFC2253 will suffice. As noted on the
ASN1_STRING_print_ex(3) manual page, for UTF-8 terminals the
ASN1_STRFLGS_ESC_MSB should be unset: so for example
XN_FLAG_ONELINE &
~ASN1_STRFLGS_ESC_MSB would be used.
The complete set of the flags supported by
X509_NAME_print_ex is listed below.
Several options can be OR'ed together.
The options XN_FLAG_SEP_COMMA_PLUS,
XN_FLAG_SEP_CPLUS_SPC,
XN_FLAG_SEP_SPLUS_SPC, and
XN_FLAG_SEP_MULTILINE determine the field separators
to use. Two distinct separators are used between distinct
RelativeDistinguishedName components and separate
values in the same RDN for a multi-valued RDN. Multi-valued RDNs are
currently very rare so the second separator will hardly ever be used.
XN_FLAG_SEP_COMMA_PLUS uses comma and plus
as separators. XN_FLAG_SEP_CPLUS_SPC uses comma and
plus with spaces: this is more readable that plain comma and plus.
XN_FLAG_SEP_SPLUS_SPC uses spaced semicolon and
plus. XN_FLAG_SEP_MULTILINE uses spaced newline and
plus respectively.
If XN_FLAG_DN_REV is set, the whole DN is
printed in reversed order.
The fields XN_FLAG_FN_SN,
XN_FLAG_FN_LN,
XN_FLAG_FN_OID, and
XN_FLAG_FN_NONE determine how a field name is
displayed. It will use the short name (e.g. CN), the long name (e.g.
commonName), always use OID numerical form (normally OIDs are only used if
the field name is not recognised) and no field name, respectively.
If XN_FLAG_SPC_EQ is set, then spaces will
be placed around the ‘=’ character
separating field names and values.
If XN_FLAG_DUMP_UNKNOWN_FIELDS is set,
then the encoding of unknown fields is printed instead of the values.
If XN_FLAG_FN_ALIGN is set, then field
names are padded to 20 characters: this is only of use for multiline
format.
Additionally, all the options supported by ASN1_STRING_print_ex(3) can be used to control how each field value is displayed.
In addition a number of options can be set for commonly used formats.
XN_FLAG_RFC2253 sets options which produce
an output compatible with RFC 2253. It is equivalent to
ASN1_STRFLGS_RFC2253 |
XN_FLAG_SEP_COMMA_PLUS |
XN_FLAG_DN_REV |
XN_FLAG_FN_SN |
XN_FLAG_DUMP_UNKNOWN_FIELDS.
XN_FLAG_ONELINE is a more readable one
line format which is the same as:
ASN1_STRFLGS_RFC2253 |
ASN1_STRFLGS_ESC_QUOTE |
XN_FLAG_SEP_CPLUS_SPC |
XN_FLAG_SPC_EQ |
XN_FLAG_FN_SN.
XN_FLAG_MULTILINE is a multiline format
which is the same as: ASN1_STRFLGS_ESC_CTRL |
ASN1_STRFLGS_ESC_MSB |
XN_FLAG_SEP_MULTILINE |
XN_FLAG_SPC_EQ |
XN_FLAG_FN_LN |
XN_FLAG_FN_ALIGN.
XN_FLAG_COMPAT uses
a format identical to
X509_NAME_print():
in fact it calls X509_NAME_print() internally.
RETURN VALUES
X509_NAME_print_ex() and
X509_NAME_print_ex_fp() return 1 on success or 0 on
error if XN_FLAG_COMPAT is set in
flags. Otherwise, they return the number of printed
bytes including the indentation or -1 on error.
X509_NAME_oneline() returns a valid string
on success or NULL on error.
X509_NAME_print() returns 1 on success or
0 on error.
SEE ALSO
ASN1_STRING_print_ex(3), d2i_X509_NAME(3), X509_NAME_get_index_by_NID(3), X509_NAME_new(3)
HISTORY
X509_NAME_oneline() and
X509_NAME_print() appeared before SSLeay 0.8 and
have been available since OpenBSD 2.4.
X509_NAME_print_ex() and
X509_NAME_print_ex_fp() first appeared in OpenSSL
0.9.6 and have been available since OpenBSD 2.9.