On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> Unfortunately, the information about this is not in the current
> OpenSSL documentation. You have to read the source code or
> see discussion about it in the openssl-dev mailing list.
> There is a reference to the X509_get_default_cert_file and
> X509_get_default_cert_file_env in the obsolete ssleay.txt file in
> the OpenSSL document directory, but that is about it. The only
> references that I know to the SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_CERT_DIR
> environment variables (other than in the source code itself) are
> in the old "SSLeay and SSLapps FAQ" which is not distributed with
> OpenSSL (available at http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~ftp/Crypto/").

Sorry to reply to myself, but I just found a slightly better (but still
obsolete) reference to this. See section 1.3 of the SSLeay Certificate
Handling Interface document:
"http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~ftp/Crypto/certs.html".
                           Doug

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