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Re: AW: Difference between CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:29:01 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Dr. Roger Cuypers wrote:

> So simplified that means that verify peer has a similar functionality like
> SSL_get_verify_result in OpenSSL while verify host checks the common name?

Verify peer checks that the cert is signed by a CA, verify host makes sure the
cert contains the server name.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2015-07-10