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Re: HTTPS in Curl - server certificate

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:25:48 +0100 (MET)

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Hulka Bohuslav wrote:

> >I'm not sure what kind of dump you want, but if you try the -v option when
> >connecting curl to a HTTPS site, you'll see some certificate information.
>
> Thank you, I've tried it before. My problemm is how to verify the
> certificate of the server I am communicating with? I think info about
> subject and issuer are not enough. I consider two possibilities: to
> store truste certificates or to ask some CA or to combine this two
> possibilities. And my question is: Does CURL support something like that?

Thanks to mr T. Bharath, libcurl is capable of this now (since a few weeks
back). This is however not a feature that has (yet) been added to the curl
tool as an option.

If you would feel like adding it or have a suggestion on how the interface
would look like, feel free to post it!

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2000-11-13