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Re: HTTPS in Curl - server certificate

From: Hulka Bohuslav <bhulka_at_app.cz>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:51:10 +0100

Daniel Stenberg :
>> 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!

---
As I've said, I am quite new in this topic, but I try to describe my
"idealistic vision":
To add option for verifying given certificate according to some locally
stored certificate(s) + verifying optionally through whole certificate chain
to the root CA.
Thanks for raise hopes.
Bohuslav Hulka
Received on 2000-11-13