curl-users
Re: HTTPS in Curl - server certificate
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:25:48 +0100 (MET)
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Hulka Bohuslav wrote:
> >I'm not sure what kind of dump you want, but if you try the -v option when
> >connecting curl to a HTTPS site, you'll see some certificate information.
>
> Thank you, I've tried it before. My problemm is how to verify the
> certificate of the server I am communicating with? I think info about
> subject and issuer are not enough. I consider two possibilities: to
> store truste certificates or to ask some CA or to combine this two
> possibilities. And my question is: Does CURL support something like that?
Thanks to mr T. Bharath, libcurl is capable of this now (since a few weeks
back). This is however not a feature that has (yet) been added to the curl
tool as an option.
If you would feel like adding it or have a suggestion on how the interface
would look like, feel free to post it!
-- Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/Received on 2000-11-13