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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-04-14 13:09:09 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-04-14 13:09:09 +0000
commitbafb68b844f4aa1d016f8eda786521b1ab8036f2 (patch)
tree643fc16751eadba21da284083a01b69d0e679320 /src/main.c
parent21873b52e94ba2f08f2337756cd0c52a326a0559 (diff)
With the recent fix of libcurl, it shall now return CURLE_SSL_CACERT when
it had problems withe CA cert and thus we offer a huge blurb of verbose help to explain to the poor user why this happens.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/main.c')
-rw-r--r--src/main.c18
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 9b76423a6..15bb38c65 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -2966,8 +2966,22 @@ operate(struct Configurable *config, int argc, char *argv[])
vms_show = VMSSTS_HIDE;
}
#else
- if((res!=CURLE_OK) && config->showerror)
- fprintf(config->errors, "curl: (%d) %s\n", res, errorbuffer);
+ if((res!=CURLE_OK) && config->showerror) {
+ if(CURLE_SSL_CACERT == res) {
+ fprintf(config->errors, "curl: (%d) %s\n\n", res, errorbuffer);
+#define CURL_CA_CERT_ERRORMSG \
+"More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html\n\n" \
+"curl does peer SSL certificate verification by default. If you\n" \
+"communicate with HTTPS servers using certificates that are signed by CAs\n" \
+"present in the bundle, you will get truly secure SSL connections.\n" \
+"Since you get this error, you probably forgot to point out a working CA\n" \
+"cert for your server, or you forgot to use the -k (or --insecure) option.\n"
+
+ fprintf(config->errors, "%s", CURL_CA_CERT_ERRORMSG);
+ }
+ else
+ fprintf(config->errors, "curl: (%d) %s\n", res, errorbuffer);
+ }
#endif
if (outfile && !curl_strequal(outfile, "-") && outs.stream)