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Extract a server certificate from a HTTPS connection. (See related posts)

You can simply extract information about the SSL certificate of HTTP connections using OpenSSL

openssl s_client -connect ${URL}:${PORT}


For example:

openssl s_client -connect checkout.google.com:443


From there, it is only redirecting the output to a file or extracting information out of the stream with Perl.

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