Re: SPKAC support for openssl in PHP

hi, Can you open a feature request please? At http://bugs.php.net On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Wondering if there is any support for SPKAC [1] in the openssl extension for > PHP? > > If not is it planned, and if not can it be? KEYGEN/SPKAC support is growing > in the UA vendors and KEYGEN is part of HTML5, being the preferred way to > generate client side SSL certificates since the private key never leaves the > browser. Further the need for client side certificate generation will be > growing somewhat over the next couple of years thanks to FOAF+SSL - which I > believe is about to start going through standardisation. > > At the minute we have to take a rather hacky approach in PHP [2] and it > get's much worse if you want to use x509 v3 extensions, you have to go > through a nasty process of using a bash script to gen a custom openssl.conf > on the fly to use in the SPKAC request. > > Best, > > Nathan > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spkac > [2] > Ê5šoë{Màõ > h™I‰http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080714/07ea5534/attachment.txt > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org