What EV certs are good for

[The Fungi]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:04:45AM -0500, Jerry Leichter wrote:
[...]
> It might be useful to put together a special-purpose HTTPS client
> which would initiate a connection and tell you about the cert
> returned, then exit.
[...]

I often use this (though there's probably an easier way)...

echo|openssl s_client -connect www.example.com:https|openssl x509 -text

Quick and dirty, but gets the job done.
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