Re: [pyOpenSSL] crypto.load_certificate() throws 'no start line'

[Dave C. <da...@cr...>]

On Tue Aug 18 17:57:53 2009, Matthias Güntert wrote:
> Can someone please tell, why for gods sake i receive this error?
> 
> -------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test.py", line 2, in <module>
>     crypto.load_certificate(crypto.FILETYPE_PEM, 'client.pem')
> OpenSSL.crypto.Error: [('PEM routines', 'PEM_read_bio', 'no start
> line')]
> -------------------------

Because the string 'client.pem' does not have a PEM start line...

crypto.load_certificate(crypto.FILETYPE_PEM,  
file('client.pem').read())

will do what you want.

Dave.
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