Network Programming in .NET

Need to remember when to renew a SSL cert?, here’s some handy code in c#

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;

namespace CheckSSL
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Do webrequest to get info on secure site
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(“https://www.avatarapi.com”);
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
response.Close();

//retrieve the ssl cert and assign it to an X509Certificate object
X509Certificate cert = request.ServicePoint.Certificate;

//convert the X509Certificate to an X509Certificate2 object by passing it into the constructor
X509Certificate2 cert2 = new X509Certificate2(cert);

string cn = cert2.GetIssuerName();
string cedate = cert2.GetExpirationDateString();

Console.WriteLine(cn);
Console.WriteLine(cedate);

Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}