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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2007-09-18 22:21:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2007-09-18 22:21:54 +0000 |
| commit | 8c3f40ee320c419800b97f7ed385c43948970f61 (patch) | |
| tree | f1e57c3b2d09ed1567af8103aba649b6bb32cf36 /docs | |
| parent | b1aafbd95730bd826e55fad9e368630d835df573 (diff) | |
Rob Crittenden provided an NSS update with the following highlights:
o It looks for the NSS database first in the environment variable SSL_DIR,
then in /etc/pki/nssdb, then it initializes with no database if neither of
those exist.
o If the NSS PKCS#11 libnspsem.so driver is available then PEM files may be
loaded, including the ca-bundle. If it is not available then only
certificates already in the NSS database are used.
o Tries to detect whether a file or nickname is being passed in so the right
thing is done
o Added a bit of code to make the output more like the OpenSSL module,
including displaying the certificate information when connecting in
verbose mode
o Improved handling of certificate errors (expired, untrusted, etc)
The libnsspem.so PKCS#11 module is currently only available in Fedora
8/rawhide. Work will be done soon to upstream it. The NSS module will work
with or without it, all that changes is the source of the certificates and
keys.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index bfa1a7d6f..2b1736998 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -330,7 +330,9 @@ them independently. If curl is built against the NSS SSL library then this option tells curl the nickname of the certificate to use within the NSS database defined -by --cacert. +by the environment variable SSL_DIR (or by default /etc/pki/nssdb). If the +NSS PEM PKCS#11 module (libnsspem.so) is available then PEM files may be +loaded. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--cert-type <type>" @@ -352,7 +354,10 @@ The windows version of curl will automatically look for a CA certs file named Current Working Directory, or in any folder along your PATH. If curl is built against the NSS SSL library then this option tells -curl the directory that the NSS certificate database resides in. +curl the nickname of the CA certificate to use within the NSS database +defined by the environment variable SSL_DIR (or by default /etc/pki/nssdb). +If the NSS PEM PKCS#11 module (libnsspem.so) is available then PEM files +may be loaded. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--capath <CA certificate directory>" |