On Mon, Oct 29, 2007, Bruce Keats wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying for a couple of days now to test an OCSP responder, but I
> am having problems getting the openssl OCSP client to send the OCSP requests
> to the OCSP responder listed in the certificate's AIA.  If I use the -url
> option with openssl ocsp command,  then it will generate the OCSP request,
> send the request to the URI and decode and print the results.  Here is a
> sample command:
> 
> openssl ocsp -issuer /tmp/cacert.pem -cert /tmp/bruce-cert.pem -text
> -CAfile /tmp/cacert.pem -url http://192.168.0.185:80
> 
> This works!
> 
> I would have thought that if I remove the -url option from the command then
> openssl would send the OCSP request to the list of OCSP responders in the
> Authority Information Access (AIA) extension.  Well, it does not.  Instead
> it just prints out the request and exits.   I have tried various options
> without success.  I have read the man page many times and did some google
> searches without finding anything that works.  I am sure I am overlooking
> the obvious.
> 

Well the obvious in this case is that that functionality is not currently
supported. It will be added at some point though.

Steve.
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