Hi,

I am working on a module, and I get one of the SSL envvars, SSL_CLIENT_CERT, 
using apr_table_get() into a const char *.

The client cert char string returned has the extra beginning line (-----BEGIN 
CERTIFICATE-----) and ending line (-----END CERTIFICATE-----), but I need to 
remove both of those lines for a call that I need to make.

I have to admit, I'm a bit (a lot) rusty with 'C', and I guess I could do 
something like:

strpy(original_cert, original_cert+27);

and then set the ending position to \0 (to terminate the char string early), 
but since with this is a module, and I'm working with a pointer to the memory 
pool, I'm kind of worried that doing stuff like that would mess things up 
(e.g., garbage collection, since the string is now shorter by 'x' bytes.

So, from an Apache module development standpoint, what would be the safest way 
to do this (strip a string of chars from the beginning and end)?

Thanks,
Jim

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