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

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

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:16:53PM +0000, Graham Barr wrote:
> 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.

Hm, that one fails some test :(

try this

Graham.