[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 924 display both hex and decimal serial numbers

[Rob Crittenden]

Jan Cholasta wrote:
> Dne 13.1.2012 20:53, Rob Crittenden napsal(a):
>> When viewing a certificate it will show the serial number as hex (dec).
>>
>> # ipa service-show HTTP/rawhide.example.com
>> Principal: HTTP/rawhide.example.com at EXAMPLE.COM
>> Certificate: [snip]
>> Keytab: True
>> Managed by: rawhide.example.com
>> Subject: CN=rawhide.example.com,O=EXAMPLE.COM
>> Serial Number: 0x403 (1027)
>> Issuer: CN=EXAMPLE.COM Certificate Authority
>> Not Before: Fri Jan 13 15:00:44 2012 UTC
>> Not After: Thu Jan 13 15:00:44 2022 UTC
>> Fingerprint (MD5): e5:43:17:0d:8d:af:d6:69:d8:fb:eb:ca:79:fb:47:69
>> Fingerprint (SHA1):
>> c2:9e:8e:de:42:c9:4a:29:cc:b0:a0:de:57:c7:b7:d8:f9:b5:fe:e6
>>
>> rob
>>
>
> NACK
>
> Displaying a host or a service in the webUI fails with "IPA error 3009:
> invalid 'serial_number': Decimal or hexadecimal number is required for
> serial number".
>
> I would suggest to do the nifty formatting of serial numbers on the
> client side, that would fix the webUI issue, allow non-IPA clients to
> parse the number without dissecting the string representation of it and
> probably also save me a hack in the type conversion overhaul. You could
> for example add a parameter flag like "format_serial_number" to indicate
> to the client that it should format the value as a serial number.
>
> Honza
>

Well, we want to do as little client formatting as possible. The idea is 
to have a very thin client.

I'll look into fixing the UI side.

rob