ne_ssl_cert_read
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## Name

ne_ssl_cert_read, ne_ssl_cert_write, ne_ssl_cert_import, ne_ssl_cert_export — functions to read or write certificates to and from files or strings

## Synopsis

    #include <ne_ssl.h>

`ne_ssl_certificate *ne_ssl_cert_read(` | const char * | filename`)`;

`int ne_ssl_cert_write(` | const ne_ssl_certificate * | cert,
| const char * | filename`)`;

`ne_ssl_certificate *ne_ssl_cert_import(` | const char * | data`)`;

`char *ne_ssl_cert_export(` | const ne_ssl_certificate * | cert`)`;

## Description

The `ne_ssl_cert_write` function writes a certificate to a file using the PEM encoding. The `ne_ssl_cert_export` function returns a base64-encoded `NUL`-terminated string representing the certificate. This string is malloc-allocated and should be destroyed using `free` by the caller.

The `ne_ssl_cert_read` function reads a certificate from a PEM-encoded file, and returns a certificate object. The `ne_ssl_cert_import` function returns a certificate object from a base64-encoded string, `data`, as returned by `ne_ssl_cert_export`. The certificate object returned by these functions should be destroyed using ne_ssl_cert_free after use.

## Return value

`ne_ssl_cert_read` returns `NULL` if a certificate could not be read from the file. `ne_ssl_cert_write` returns non-zero if the certificate could not be written to the file. `ne_ssl_cert_export` always returns a `NUL`-terminated string, and never `NULL`. `ne_ssl_cert_import` returns `NULL` if the string was not a valid base64-encoded certificate.

## Encoding Formats

The string produced by `ne_ssl_cert_export` is the base64 encoding of the DER representation of the certificate. The file written by `ne_ssl_cert_write` uses the PEM format: this is the base64 encoding of the DER representation with newlines every 64 characters, and start and end marker lines.

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