On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, John McGowan wrote:

> A slight bug (perhaps) in using "-k" (insecure).
>
> I was trying to get a spammer's order page.
> He had created a certificate with "" (no)
> "Common Name". Even with the "-k" (allow insecure)
> flag, curl responds:
>
> * Closing connection #0
> curl: (51) SSL: unable to obtain common name from peer certificate

This happens because curl sets CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to 1 when -k is used,
not 0. Using 0 would prevent this failure I think.

What do other people say, should we use 0 on -k?

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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