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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 8c14c7dcc..bd342a125 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -1924,13 +1924,15 @@ mismatch with the issuer of peer certificate (\fICURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER\fP has to be set too for the check to fail). (Added in 7.19.0) .IP CURLOPT_CAPATH Pass a char * to a zero terminated string naming a directory holding multiple -CA certificates to verify the peer with. The certificate directory must be -prepared using the openssl c_rehash utility. This makes sense only when used -in combination with the \fICURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER\fP option. If -\fICURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER\fP is zero, \fICURLOPT_CAPATH\fP need not even -indicate an accessible path. The \fICURLOPT_CAPATH\fP function apparently -does not work in Windows due to some limitation in openssl. This option is -OpenSSL-specific and does nothing if libcurl is built to use GnuTLS. +CA certificates to verify the peer with. If libcurl is built against OpenSSL, +the certificate directory must be prepared using the openssl c_rehash utility. +This makes sense only when used in combination with the +\fICURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER\fP option. If \fICURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER\fP is zero, +\fICURLOPT_CAPATH\fP need not even indicate an accessible path. The +\fICURLOPT_CAPATH\fP function apparently does not work in Windows due to some +limitation in openssl. This option is OpenSSL-specific and does nothing if +libcurl is built to use GnuTLS. NSS-powered libcurl provides the option only +for backward compatibility. .IP CURLOPT_CRLFILE Pass a char * to a zero terminated string naming a file with the concatenation of CRL (in PEM format) to use in the certificate validation that occurs during |