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SSL Certificate Checker

Inspect a public website TLS certificate, validity period, issuer, subject, SAN hostnames, fingerprint, and trust verification.

live TLS connection certificate validity dates days remaining issuer and subject
Trexmi opens a TLS connection to a public host. Certificate trust and hostname verification are checked separately from certificate parsing.
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Tool settings

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SSL certificate analysis Certificate validity, identity, issuer, SAN hostnames, fingerprint, trust verification, and raw data.
About the tool

What SSL Certificate Checker does

SSL Certificate Checker opens a live TLS connection to a public host and inspects the X.509 certificate presented by that service. Use SSL Certificate Checker to confirm certificate validity dates, issuer, common name, Subject Alternative Names, SHA-256 fingerprint, signature type, days remaining, and whether normal certificate-chain and hostname verification succeeds.

Modern HTTPS security depends on TLS rather than the obsolete SSL protocols, but “SSL certificate” remains the common search term for website certificates. The checker therefore uses the familiar name while testing the certificate through a modern TLS connection.

SSL Certificate Checker visual report showing trust validity issuer SAN hostnames and fingerprint
SSL Certificate Checker turns a live TLS certificate into a readable validity and identity report.

How to use

  1. Enter the host. Use a public hostname such as example.com or an HTTPS URL.
  2. Choose the TLS port. Port 443 is standard for HTTPS.
  3. Run the check. Trexmi resolves the public host and opens a TLS connection with SNI.
  4. Review validity. Compare the current date with the certificate start and expiry dates.
  5. Review identity and trust. Check the common name, SAN hostnames, issuer, fingerprint, and verification result.
Built for the task

Why use SSL Certificate Checker?

Focused controls, predictable output, and a workflow designed around this exact transformation.

01

Verify certificate trust

See whether the certificate chain and requested hostname pass normal TLS verification.

02

Track expiry

Check exact validity dates and the number of days remaining before expiry.

03

Inspect certificate identity

Review the common name and Subject Alternative Names presented by the live host.

04

Copy the fingerprint

Use the SHA-256 certificate fingerprint for diagnostics and controlled comparisons.

Useful answers

Questions about SSL Certificate Checker

Practical details about input, output, privacy, limits, and the best way to use this tool.

01 What does SSL Certificate Checker test?

It retrieves the live certificate from a public TLS service, parses its identity and validity information, and performs a separate normal trust and hostname verification attempt.

02 Why does the tool say TLS if the name says SSL?

SSL is obsolete, but “SSL certificate” is still widely used as a general term for HTTPS certificates. Modern secure connections use TLS.

03 What are SAN hostnames?

Subject Alternative Name entries list the DNS names or IP addresses that the certificate is allowed to identify. Modern hostname verification primarily relies on SAN entries.

04 What does Trusted mean?

Trusted means the server certificate could be validated through the server trust store and matched to the requested hostname during a verified TLS connection.

05 Does a valid certificate prove a website is safe?

No. A valid certificate authenticates a TLS identity and protects transport when used correctly. It does not prove that the website content, business, or application is trustworthy.

Learn SSL & TLS

Read the complete SSL Certificate Guide

Understand TLS certificates, SAN hostnames, issuers, trust chains, expiration, PEM data, fingerprints, and common HTTPS errors.

  • TLS certificates and SANs
  • Trust chains and expiration
  • PEM, fingerprints, and troubleshooting
Read guide Practical explanations and examples

How SSL Certificate Checker works

The SSL Certificate Checker connects directly to the selected public host and captures the certificate returned during the TLS handshake. It then parses the X.509 fields into a visual report. This is different from inspecting a certificate file that you already have: the result reflects what the remote service is actually serving at the time of the check.

The checker records the subject, issuer, serial number, signature type, validity period, SAN entries, and SHA-256 fingerprint. It also performs a second verified connection so the report can distinguish certificate parsing from trust and hostname validation.

Certificate validity and expiry

An X.509 certificate contains a “not before” time and a “not after” time. A certificate can fail because it is not valid yet, has expired, or is close enough to expiry that operational renewal should be reviewed. Automated certificate management reduces expiry incidents, but monitoring remains useful because deployment, DNS, proxy, or load-balancer mistakes can leave an old certificate active.

The RFC 5280 certificate profile defines the Internet X.509 PKI certificate and revocation framework. For practical browser and web guidance, the MDN TLS security reference is a useful companion.

Common name and Subject Alternative Names

Modern certificates identify hosts through the Subject Alternative Name extension. A certificate for www.example.com might also contain example.com or wildcard entries such as *.example.com. Hostname verification must confirm that the requested host is covered by the certificate identity rules.

A wildcard does not mean every possible hostname pattern is valid. It normally covers one label at the wildcard position. Always review the exact SAN list when diagnosing a hostname mismatch.

Certificate trust verification

A readable certificate is not automatically trusted. Trust verification checks whether the presented chain can connect to a trusted root and whether the certificate is acceptable for the requested hostname. An expired certificate, unknown issuer, incomplete chain, or hostname mismatch can make verification fail even though the certificate itself can still be parsed.

The SHA-256 fingerprint is a digest of the certificate. It is useful for diagnostics and controlled comparisons, but applications should normally rely on standard PKI validation instead of manually pinning arbitrary fingerprints.

Use HTTP Header Checker to inspect HSTS and other HTTPS response headers, HTTP Status Checker to verify the live HTTP response, DNS Lookup to inspect the host records, and Certificate Decoder when you already have PEM certificate text that needs offline inspection.

SSL Certificate Checker summary

SSL Certificate Checker is a practical live TLS diagnostic tool. Use the trust result together with expiry dates, SAN hostnames, issuer data, and the fingerprint. When a result needs review, inspect the certificate chain, SNI hostname, DNS destination, CDN or load-balancer configuration, and certificate deployment process before changing production settings.