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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2016-03-06 16:58:34 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2016-03-06 16:59:06 +0100
commitaed91f3a7cea463154cda9a634ab90ba5c452199 (patch)
tree57c8938ef911720b4586aa52a5e2738aa65ea6d7 /docs/libcurl/opts
parent530234b3258a0dce95166b16379e9f368ffdcf41 (diff)
CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION.3: added example
and removed erroneous reference to test case lib509
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION.383
1 files changed, 76 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION.3
index eb93855f8..43e04a772 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -50,18 +50,87 @@ callback's error code. Set the \fIuserptr\fP argument with the
This function will get called on all new connections made to a server, during
the SSL negotiation. The SSL_CTX pointer will be a new one every time.
-To use this properly, a non-trivial amount of knowledge of your SSL library
-is necessary. For example, you can use this function to call library-specific
+To use this properly, a non-trivial amount of knowledge of your SSL library is
+necessary. For example, you can use this function to call library-specific
callbacks to add additional validation code for certificates, and even to
-change the actual URI of a HTTPS request (example used in the lib509 test
-case). See also the example section for a replacement of the key, certificate
-and trust file settings.
+change the actual URI of a HTTPS request.
.SH DEFAULT
NULL
.SH PROTOCOLS
All TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.
.SH EXAMPLE
-TODO
+/* OpenSSL specific */
+
+#include <openssl/ssl.h>
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+static CURLcode sslctx_function(CURL *curl, void *sslctx, void *parm)
+{
+ X509_STORE *store;
+ X509 *cert=NULL;
+ BIO *bio;
+ char *mypem = /* example CA cert PEM - shortened */
+ "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\n"
+ "MIIHPTCCBSWgAwIBAgIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQQFADB5MRAwDgYDVQQKEwdSb290\n"
+ "IENBMR4wHAYDVQQLExVodHRwOi8vd3d3LmNhY2VydC5vcmcxIjAgBgNVBAMTGUNB\n"
+ "IENlcnQgU2lnbmluZyBBdXRob3JpdHkxITAfBgkqhkiG9w0BCQEWEnN1cHBvcnRA\n"
+ "Y2FjZXJ0Lm9yZzAeFw0wMzAzMzAxMjI5NDlaFw0zMzAzMjkxMjI5NDlaMHkxEDAO\n"
+ "GCSNe9FINSkYQKyTYOGWhlC0elnYjyELn8+CkcY7v2vcB5G5l1YjqrZslMZIBjzk\n"
+ "zk6q5PYvCdxTby78dOs6Y5nCpqyJvKeyRKANihDjbPIky/qbn3BHLt4Ui9SyIAmW\n"
+ "omTxJBzcoTWcFbLUvFUufQb1nA5V9FrWk9p2rSVzTMVD\n"\
+ "-----END CERTIFICATE-----\n";
+ /* get a BIO */
+ bio=BIO_new_mem_buf(mypem, -1);
+ /* use it to read the PEM formatted certificate from memory into an X509
+ * structure that SSL can use
+ */
+ PEM_read_bio_X509(bio, &cert, 0, NULL);
+ if(cert == NULL)
+ printf("PEM_read_bio_X509 failed...\n");
+
+ /* get a pointer to the X509 certificate store (which may be empty!) */
+ store=SSL_CTX_get_cert_store((SSL_CTX *)sslctx);
+
+ /* add our certificate to this store */
+ if(X509_STORE_add_cert(store, cert)==0)
+ printf("error adding certificate\n");
+
+ /* decrease reference counts */
+ X509_free(cert);
+ BIO_free(bio);
+
+ /* all set to go */
+ return CURLE_OK;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ CURL * ch;
+ CURLcode rv;
+
+ rv=curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
+ ch=curl_easy_init();
+ rv=curl_easy_setopt(ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERTTYPE, "PEM");
+ rv=curl_easy_setopt(ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1L);
+ rv=curl_easy_setopt(ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.example.com/");
+
+ /* Retrieve page using cacerts' certificate -> will succeed
+ * load the certificate by installing a function doing the nescessary
+ * "modifications" to the SSL CONTEXT just before link init
+ */
+ rv=curl_easy_setopt(ch, CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION, *sslctx_function);
+ rv=curl_easy_perform(ch);
+ if(rv==CURLE_OK)
+ printf("*** transfer succeeded ***\n");
+ else
+ printf("*** transfer failed ***\n");
+
+ curl_easy_cleanup(ch);
+ curl_global_cleanup();
+ return rv;
+}
+
.SH AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.11.0 for OpenSSL. Added in 7.42.0 for wolfSSL/CyaSSL. Other SSL
backends not supported.