Returns information about the organization that the server certificate was issued to.

Syntax

object.CertificateSubject

The object is an expression that evaluates to an InternetMail object. The property returns a string value.

Remarks

The CertificateSubject property returns a string that contains information about the organization that the server certificate was issued for. The string value is a comma separated list of tagged name and value pairs. In the nomenclature of the X.500 standard, each of these pairs are called a relative distinguished name (RDN), and when concatenated together, forms the subject's distinguished name (DN). For example:

C=US, O="RSA Data Security, Inc.", OU=Secure Server Certification Authority

To obtain a specific value, such as the name of the issuer or the issuer's country, the application must parse the string returned by this property. Some of the common tokens used in the distinguished name are:

Name	Description
C	The ISO standard two character country code
S	The name of the state or province
L	The name of the city or locality
O	The name of the company or organization
OU	The name of the department or organizational unit
CN	The common name; with X.509 certificates, this is the domain name of the site the certificate was issued for

This property will return an empty string if a secure connection has not been established with the server.

Data Type

String

See Also

CertificateExpires Property, CertificateIssued Property, CertificateIssuer Property, CertificateStatus Property, Secure Property

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