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Re: CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER without CURLOPT_CAINFO?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:22:38 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Sebastian Brückner wrote:

> As the next step I would like to avoid using CURLOPT_CAINFO altogether to
> make working without any external configuration files possible. Any hints on
> how to achieve that?

Is this a self-signed certificate? If so, why do you need the cacert file?

I believe you might need the cacert file only if you need certs from the
"chain" as then the "built-in" cacert alone is not enough to verify the cert.

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Received on 2006-03-02