silverwind/ocsp.sh

Shell script to retrieve a OCSP responses via curl

ocsp.sh

Shell script to retrieve a OCSP response for a TLS certificate bundle via curl.

The resulting file can for example be used with nginx's ssl_stapling_file directive. This is useful for retrieving OCSP responses via a proxy server. The response is verified at the end of the script and the output of the verification is printed to stdout.

Usage

Usage: ocsp.sh fullchain.pem ocsp.der [chain.pem]

Retrieve a OCSP response via curl for a TLS certificate bundle.

Parameters
  fullchain.pem     A TLS certificate bundle containing a cert and its signer cert
  ocsp.der          The output file of the ocsp response
  chain.pem         Additional signer certs used during response verification

Example

$ ./ocsp.sh fullchain.pem res.der
Response verify OK
$ ./ocsp.sh fullchain.pem res.der chain.pem
Response verify OK

© silverwind, distributed under BSD licence.