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CertRequired Method—Determines whether Certificate Validation is Required

The CertRequired method sets or retrieves the flag that requires SiteMinder to verify that the certificate presented by the user matches the certificate stored in the user's entry in the user directory. The user directory must be an LDAP user directory.

Syntax

The CertRequired method has the following format:

Netegrity::PolicyMgtCertMap‑>CertRequired([certFlag])

Parameters

The CertRequired method accepts the following parameter:

certFlag (int)

(Optional) Specifies whether certificate verification is required:

• 1 certificate verification is required
• 0 certificate verification is not required

Return Value

The CertRequired method returns one of the following values:

• The new or existing flag setting
• -1 if the call was unsuccessful