I am trying to use cURL in a fairly standard way and running into this
error.

On my local Windows box running:

    curl 7.10.7 (win32) libcurl/7.10.7 OpenSSL/0.9.7c zlib/1.1.4

I do this:

    h:\curl\curl.exe -v -E d:\path\cert.pem -k https://.....

and it connects to the server with no trouble.

If I copy the .pem file to the Linux server, running:

    curl 7.9.8 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl 7.9.8 (OpenSSL 0.9.6b)

and do this:

    /usr/local/bin/curl -v -E /path/cert.pem 'https://.....'

I get this error:

     curl: (35) unable to set certificate file (wrong password?)

It appears it can't find or isn't using the cert file -- I can change
the string after -E to anything I want (e.g. xyz.xyz) and I get the
same error. I realize this is missing the -k but my understanding is
this is not required for 7.9.x.

I know the server cert should be verified but this is a test
environment with self-signed certificates so the use of -k / not
verifying the server cert is appropriate here.

Also I will note one other item which might occur to someone -- when
transferring the certificate file to the Unix box I did translate the
newlines properly.

Can't think of anything else, but I'm hoping someone out there can!

 ----------
 Tom Rawson

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Received on 2003-10-28