From 86ef4c04c1ac41b980c1ba4154b843452f700809 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Stuart <Alex.Stuart@ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:24:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updating of first line of old certificate to be removed.

---
 build/remove_old_eduserv_cert.pl | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/build/remove_old_eduserv_cert.pl b/build/remove_old_eduserv_cert.pl
index 6424d19c..0a3bf999 100755
--- a/build/remove_old_eduserv_cert.pl
+++ b/build/remove_old_eduserv_cert.pl
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@
 #
 
 # This line indicates that the old certificate is present
-$old_cert_line = 'MIIEiTCCA3GgAwIBAgIRAPzB04tYcniZc/0mSMRCfXgwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAw';
+#
+# Ensure that all Base64-encoded characters which affect perl pattern matching are escaped.
+# For example, '+' in the variable indicates 'one or more of the preceding character', 
+# whilst \+ indicates a literal + in the input string.
+$old_cert_line = 'MIIEiDCCA3CgAwIBAgIQOBNA\+hb81eyfqXol6z3klDANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADA2';
 
 while (<>) {