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Re: SSL: couldn't create a context! Errors

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:07:27 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, David Justl wrote:

> "SSL: couldn't create a context!"

This means that the OpenSSL function SSL_CTX_new() returns a failure when
libcurl calls it.

> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); // this line makes it work under
> https

This comment is misleading. It doesn't quite "make it work". It disables peer
certificate verification.

> Or are we doing something wrong in our code?

There's really nothing particular you _can_ do to make this happen, but the
downside is that there's also nothing you can do to prevent this from
happening... I don't know why the function fails.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2009-01-14