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Re: Create certificate to POST data

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:35:46 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Job Velde, van de wrote:

> I use CURL to POST a file to a server of one of our clients. It works with
> HTTPS, my CURL program accepts the certificate of the server, but I have to
> log in to the server of my own identifcation with username and password.
>
> Now, the client asked me to create a own certificate to send from my client
> to the server to identificate me. I watched on the OpenSSL site how I can do
> this. I found enough data but not the right thing.
>
> When I create a ca-certificate

Bzzzzt. You seem to be mixing terms here. You use ca-certificates to verify
the server's certificate not the other way around. You need your own client
certificate if the server wants to verify you.

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Received on 2004-06-14