just getting my feet wet (hands dirty, or whatever) with cURL.

the objective: need to download a file from a HTTPS site which uses
certificates.

i went thru their certificate generating execise (using Netscape) and
successfully generated a private/public certificate pair. i copied this
to linux to use with cURL, but got the [35] couldn't use certificate error.

after reading thru the list archive, i noticed that i needed to convert it to
a PEM - which i subsequently did. that took care of the [35], but i still
don't get any output when i connect. here is a log using the cURL '-v'
option:
(does it tell me why i am not getting any output back?)

$ curl -v -E /home/prgramly/CDGcert.pem
https://sdgate.uswest.com/cgi-bin/index.exe -d 'user_id=kmc6098&password=1029'
Enter PEM pass phrase:
* SSL connection using RC4-MD5
* Server certificate:
* subject: /C=US/ST=Nebraska/L=Omaha/O=Qwest Communications
International
, Inc./OU=IT/CN=sdgate.uswest.com
* issuer: /C=US/O=RSA Data Security, Inc./OU=Secure Server Certification
Authority
* Connected to uswgne16.uswest.com (204.26.87.94)
> POST /cgi-bin/index.exe HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.8 (s390-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl 7.8 (OpenSSL 0.9.6b) (ipv6
enabled)
Host: sdgate.uswest.com
Pragma: no-cache
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Content-Length: 29
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

user_id=kmc6098&password=1029
* Connection (#0) left alive
* Closing live connection (#0)

prg

Phillip Gramly
Systems Programmer
Communications Data Group
Champaign, IL
Received on 2002-05-15