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CURLINFO_CERTINFO explained

Name

CURLINFO_CERTINFO - get the TLS certificate chain

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>
 
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CERTINFO,
                           struct curl_certinfo **chainp);

Description

Pass a pointer to a struct curl_certinfo * and it is set to point to a struct that holds info about the server's certificate chain, assuming you had CURLOPT_CERTINFO enabled when the request was made.

struct curl_certinfo {
  int num_of_certs;
  struct curl_slist **certinfo;
};

The certinfo struct member is an array of linked lists of certificate information. The num_of_certs struct member is the number of certificates which is the number of elements in the array. Each certificate's list has items with textual information in the format "name:content" such as "Subject:Foo", "Issuer:Bar", etc. The items in each list varies depending on the SSL backend and the certificate.

Protocols

This functionality affects all TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.

This option works only with the following TLS backends: GnuTLS, OpenSSL, Schannel and Secure Transport

Example

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.example.com/");
 
    /* connect to any HTTPS site, trusted or not */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);
 
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CERTINFO, 1L);
 
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
 
    if(!res) {
      int i;
      struct curl_certinfo *ci;
      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CERTINFO, &ci);
 
      if(!res) {
        printf("%d certs!\n", ci->num_of_certs);
 
        for(i = 0; i < ci->num_of_certs; i++) {
          struct curl_slist *slist;
 
          for(slist = ci->certinfo[i]; slist; slist = slist->next)
            printf("%s\n", slist->data);
        }
      }
    }
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

History

GnuTLS support added in 7.42.0. Schannel support added in 7.50.0. Secure Transport support added in 7.79.0. mbedTLS support added in 8.9.0.

Availability

Added in curl 7.19.1

Return value

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.