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Pass X509Certificate as String?

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This is a bit weird.  I am writing an SSLSocketFactory for use with the
PostgreSQL JDBC driver.  Unfortunately, the driver imposes some very
inconvenient criteria on the factory class.

  http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/91/ssl-factory.html

In particular, the class must have a zero-argument constructor or a
constructor that takes a single String argument.  My challenge is to
somehow pass a java.security.cert.X509Certificate to this constructor.

The only idea I've been able to come up with thus far is to serialize
the certificate to a ByteArrayOutputStream, convert that to a String,
and reverse the process in the constructor.

Does anyone have a better idea?

If not, is there a character set that can handle all values 0-255?

Thanks!

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Ian Pilcher                                         arequipeno@gmail.com
Sometimes there's nothing left to do but crash and burn...or die trying.
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Pass X509Certificate as String? Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com> - 2013-02-08 17:48 -0600
  Re: Pass X509Certificate as String? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-08 19:12 -0500
    Re: Pass X509Certificate as String? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-08 19:21 -0500
      Re: Pass X509Certificate as String? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-08 19:35 -0500
        Re: Pass X509Certificate as String? Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com> - 2013-02-08 18:50 -0600
          Re: Pass X509Certificate as String? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-08 19:57 -0500
            Re: Pass X509Certificate as String? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-08 23:34 -0500
  Re: Pass X509Certificate as String? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-09 10:10 -0800
    Re: Pass X509Certificate as String? Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com> - 2013-02-16 11:03 -0600
      Re: Pass X509Certificate as String? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-02-16 12:40 -0800
        Re: Pass X509Certificate as String? Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-17 16:16 -0500

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