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Re: use curl with https

From: tengel <tengel_at_sonic.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:35:51 -0700

Carl,

2) is your packagers problem -- the certs are provided in the source tarball, and are installed in /usr/share/curl/ with my RPMs (and I'd think the debian pkgs are the same).

-te

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:08:13AM -0600, Carl Youngblood wrote:
> The FAQ is not sufficient. For one thing, it doesn't say how many certs are
> bundled with curl and it only gives you two options for fixing the problem:
> 1) be insecure -- OBVIOUSLY NOT A VIABLE OPTION or 2) manually point curl to
> a CA cert during runtime. It says nothing about how to get curl to
> automatically recognize more CA certs out-of-box or why it doesn't behave
> like IE or Mozilla would on certain sites. What actually needs to happen
> is: 1) The FAQ needs to be improved, and 2) curl needs to be bundled with
> all the CA certs that a normal browser has.
>
> Carl Youngblood
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tengel" <tengel_at_sonic.net>
> To: <curl-users_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 10:46 AM
> Subject: Re: use curl with https
>
>
> > Daniel,
> >
> > A complete lurker's view -- we sure do get a lot of questions regarding
> the SSL certs, and the answer is, of course, to read the FAQ as it's all
> explained. But, isn't there something that can be done (codewise) so that
> people stop bugging you?
> >
> > I'm thinking even something as simple as (psuedocode):
> >
> > if (ssl_cert_problem) {
> > printf("SSL Certificate FAQ: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html");
> > exit(12345);
> > }
> >
> > or whatnot? That might alleviate a lot of the problems, help people help
> themselves, save a buncha emails, etc....
> >
> > My $0.02US. :)
> > -te
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:22:47PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jill Tam wrote:
> > >
> > > > i tried to run curl with a https site.
> > > > it have such error
> > > > curl: (35) SSL: error:00000001:lib(0):func(0):reason(1)
> > >
> > > Read this:
> > >
> > > http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html
> >
> > --
> > Troy Engel
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Received on 2003-04-07