Re: [Fwd] CPAN Upload: G/GB/GBARR/Convert-ASN1-0.15.tar.gz

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:31:14PM +0100, Norbert Klasen wrote:
> Hi Graham,
> 
> > 	Support for nested SEQUENCE/SET OF's
> 
> I tested my script for decoding X.509 certificates again, and it now works 
> for RDNs (SEQUENCE OF SET OF). However, I still cannot decode the CRL 
> distributions points extenstion, which is a SEQUNCE OF SEQUNCE. The script 
> dies with the following error message "Modification of a read-only value 
> attempted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Convert/ASN1/_decode.pm line 
> 319."
> 
> Attached is a small script that show this behavior and an extract from a 
> certificate.

Ah, this happens because the top level element in that you are decoding is a sequence of.

Try the attached patch. What will happen is that in the case that the top-level
element id a sequence of, decode will return an array ref instead of
a hash ref.

Graham.