On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:27 AM, ming <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> i have been running a [private|local] CA which also functions as a reverse
> proxy.  i issue X.509 client-side certs with this CA for programming API
> access authentication.  Now i am contemplating the implementation of some
> simple home-brewed CRL-like revocation mechanism.   Obviously that requires
> my node.js program to inspect the serial number of the X.509 cert the client
> presents.
>
> However, it is not clear to me what the best way is to get the serial number
> of the X.509 cert presented for the incoming request.   i've been using the
> following:
>    req.connection.getPeerCertificate().subject
> to retrieve subjects but i don't know where to find the serial number of a
> cert.
>
> Thanks.

When you say "serial number", to what specific X.509 field
(distinguished name, OID) are you referring?

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