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authorArchangel_SDY <Archangel.SDY@gmail.com>2018-04-18 21:01:14 +0800
committerJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2018-04-23 03:16:52 -0400
commitf0819f99ae226c293c0f49ef5e715a44bdad618b (patch)
tree5286b212ef2708d378d064ecd8d78d0b9b47929a /docs
parentab988caef66d75707fd43756906b9b9f42a89337 (diff)
CURLOPT_SSLCERT.3: improve WinSSL-specific usage info
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2376#issuecomment-381858780 Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2504
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/cert.d11
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_SSLCERT.312
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/cert.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/cert.d
index 0cd5d535f..adf62fc7a 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/cert.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/cert.d
@@ -29,4 +29,15 @@ system or user keychain, or the path to a PKCS#12-encoded certificate and
private key. If you want to use a file from the current directory, please
precede it with "./" prefix, in order to avoid confusion with a nickname.
+(Schannel/WinSSL only) Client certificates must be specified by a path
+expression to a certificate store. (Loading PFX is not supported; you can
+import it to a store first). You can use
+"<store location>\\<store name>\\<thumbprint>" to refer to a certificate
+in the system certificates store, for example,
+"CurrentUser\\MY\\934a7ac6f8a5d579285a74fa61e19f23ddfe8d7a". Thumbprint is
+usually a SHA-1 hex string which you can see in certificate details. Following
+store locations are supported: CurrentUser, LocalMachine, CurrentService,
+Services, CurrentUserGroupPolicy, LocalMachineGroupPolicy,
+LocalMachineEnterprise.
+
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_SSLCERT.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_SSLCERT.3
index 3f40b73b9..bd867772a 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_SSLCERT.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_SSLCERT.3
@@ -38,8 +38,16 @@ you wish to authenticate with as it is named in the security database. If you
want to use a file from the current directory, please precede it with "./"
prefix, in order to avoid confusion with a nickname.
-With WinSSL, this can be expression like "CurrentUser\\MY\\<thumbprint>" to
-refer to a certificate in the system certificates store.
+(Schannel/WinSSL only) Client certificates must be specified by a path
+expression to a certificate store. (Loading PFX is not supported; you can
+import it to a store first). You can use
+"<store location>\\<store name>\\<thumbprint>" to refer to a certificate
+in the system certificates store, for example,
+"CurrentUser\\MY\\934a7ac6f8a5d579285a74fa61e19f23ddfe8d7a". Thumbprint is
+usually a SHA-1 hex string which you can see in certificate details. Following
+store locations are supported: CurrentUser, LocalMachine, CurrentService,
+Services, CurrentUserGroupPolicy, LocalMachineGroupPolicy,
+LocalMachineEnterprise.
When using a client certificate, you most likely also need to provide a
private key with \fICURLOPT_SSLKEY(3)\fP.