com.itextpdf.text.pdf.security
Class CertificateUtil

java.lang.Object
  com.itextpdf.text.pdf.security.CertificateUtil

public class CertificateUtil
extends java.lang.Object

This class contains a series of static methods that allow you to retrieve information from a Certificate.

Constructor Summary

CertificateUtil()

Method Summary

static java.security.cert.CRL	getCRL(java.lang.String url) Gets the CRL object using a CRL URL.
static java.security.cert.CRL	getCRL(java.security.cert.X509Certificate certificate) Gets a CRL from a certificate
static java.lang.String	getCRLURL(java.security.cert.X509Certificate certificate) Gets the URL of the Certificate Revocation List for a Certificate
static java.lang.String	getOCSPURL(java.security.cert.X509Certificate certificate) Retrieves the OCSP URL from the given certificate.
static java.lang.String	getTSAURL(java.security.cert.X509Certificate certificate) Gets the URL of the TSA if it's available on the certificate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CertificateUtil

public CertificateUtil()

Method Detail

getCRL

public static java.security.cert.CRL getCRL(java.security.cert.X509Certificate certificate)
                                     throws java.security.cert.CertificateException,
                                            java.security.cert.CRLException,
                                            java.io.IOException

Gets a CRL from a certificate

Parameters:

certificate -

Returns:

the CRL or null if there's no CRL available

Throws:

java.security.cert.CertificateException

java.security.cert.CRLException

java.io.IOException

getCRLURL

public static java.lang.String getCRLURL(java.security.cert.X509Certificate certificate)
                                  throws java.security.cert.CertificateParsingException

Gets the URL of the Certificate Revocation List for a Certificate

Parameters:

certificate - the Certificate

Returns:

the String where you can check if the certificate was revoked

Throws:

java.security.cert.CertificateParsingException

java.io.IOException

getCRL

public static java.security.cert.CRL getCRL(java.lang.String url)
                                     throws java.io.IOException,
                                            java.security.cert.CertificateException,
                                            java.security.cert.CRLException

Gets the CRL object using a CRL URL.

Parameters:

url - the URL where to get the CRL

Returns:

a CRL object

Throws:

java.io.IOException

java.security.cert.CertificateException

java.security.cert.CRLException

getOCSPURL

public static java.lang.String getOCSPURL(java.security.cert.X509Certificate certificate)

Retrieves the OCSP URL from the given certificate.

Parameters:

certificate - the certificate

Returns:

the URL or null

Throws:

java.io.IOException

getTSAURL

public static java.lang.String getTSAURL(java.security.cert.X509Certificate certificate)

Gets the URL of the TSA if it's available on the certificate

Parameters:

certificate - a certificate

Returns:

a TSA URL

Throws:

java.io.IOException