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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2004-06-29 07:58:52 +0000 | 
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2004-06-29 07:58:52 +0000 | 
| commit | 964066c0deec87e97771530a63c36d1aa3313eb8 (patch) | |
| tree | 40a323de06caa72a3468473b4251259fd3486e3f /docs/SSLCERTS | |
| parent | a913e93667e10293e7bec9d572c3d8b3c3ca0224 (diff) | |
Added missing info for the command line tool, as noted by Mike Kienenberger
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/SSLCERTS')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/SSLCERTS | 18 | 
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
| diff --git a/docs/SSLCERTS b/docs/SSLCERTS index 406083f41..8c37987c1 100644 --- a/docs/SSLCERTS +++ b/docs/SSLCERTS @@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ server, do one of the following:   1. Tell libcurl to *not* verify the peer. With libcurl you disable with with      curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); -    With the curl command tool, you disable this with -k/--insecure. +    With the curl command line tool, you disable this with -k/--insecure.   2. Get a CA certificate that can verify the remote server and use the proper      option to point out this CA cert for verification when connecting. For      libcurl hackers: curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CAPATH, capath); -    With the curl command tool: --cacert [file] +    With the curl command line tool: --cacert [file]   3. Add the CA cert for your server to the existing default CA cert bundle.      The default path of the CA bundle installed with the curl package is: @@ -34,6 +34,19 @@ server, do one of the following:      configure with the --with-ca-bundle option pointing out the path of your      choice. +    If you're using the curl command line tool, you can specify your own CA +    cert path by setting the environment variable CURL_CA_BUNDLE to the path +    of your choice. + +    If you're using the curl command line toll on Windows, curl will search +    for a CA cert file named "curl-ca-bundle.crt" in these directories and in +    this order: +      1. application's directory +      2. current working directory +      3. Windows System directory (e.g. C:\windows\system32) +      4. Windows Directory (e.g. C:\windows) +      5. all directories along %PATH% +  Neglecting to use one of the above menthods when dealing with a server using a  certficate that isn't signed by one of the certficates in the installed CA  cert bundle, will cause SSL to report an error ("certificate verify failed") @@ -45,4 +58,3 @@ trouble for some users, since it adds security to a majority of the SSL  connections that previously weren't really secure. It turned out many people  were using previous versions of curl/libcurl without realizing the need for  the CA cert options to get truly secure SSL connections. - | 
