There are times when it’s useful to be able to check an SSL cert’s subject or expiration date. In addition, it’s useful to both check the cert file and query a service. This is useful for more than just web servers; SMTP, IMAP, and LDAP are other services which use SSL certificates. There are several ways to check certs, and what I cover in this post is by no means exhaustive. (more…)
My wife and a developer co-worker were working on a client Plone site the other day when they ran into an anomaly. Melody was checking whether search results showed an icon to indicate pages which should only be available to registered users (using custom code for the site which is different than what normally happens in Plone, private content not showing up at all in the search results). She wasn’t seeing the lock icon, but the developer saw it on his own local copy of the same site. They then proceeded to look for find differences between the two sites.