Daniel Stenberg wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, William E. T. wrote:
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>>What I want to do is get a page VIA SSL, but I want to verify the
>>certificate.
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>You mean you want curl to verify your peer's certificate, right? Many servers
>want a client certificate too to verify you.
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Yes. Let's say I'm connecting to server my_secure_server.com, and I want
a secure connection and I want to verify that this server is
my_secure_server.com. How would I do this?

if I have a certificate, then do I need to pay anyone? (like a
certificate authority) otherwise couldn't anyone make-up a certificate?

>>I have no clue how to do this. I've seen functinos that mention a pem
>>file,
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>PEM is a file format for certificates.
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>>but haven't found a good way to get it (though I've seen them through
>>openSSL, under windows I can't pipe, and my dhcp server is liking my linux
>>instalation for some reason (liked it yesterday just fine).. IS there
>>anyway I can athenticate the certificate against the certificates
>>authoirity?
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>If "the certificate" means the peer's certiciate, then --cacert or --capath
>are your friends.
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>You need a CA certificate (bundle) though to verify the peer against.
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A CA certificate (bungle)? Could you please elaborate? If you knows
good URLS I don't mind RTFMing I'mjust kinda lost on how to do this.

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Received on 2002-08-28