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Re: curl: (58) unable to set certificate file (wrong password?)

From: Goetz Babin-Ebell <gbabinebell_at_betrusted.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:51:34 +0200

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Goetz Babin-Ebell wrote:
>
>> The reported error is a little bit confusing here. Perhaps we should
>> have changed it to something like "failed to set private key (wrong
>> psss phrase or key not found)"
>
> Really? This problem is detected when the SSL function
> SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file() fails, so it is the certificate
> file that causes the problem.

Oups.
Perhaps I should have looked in the source before posting my comment... ;-)

> Perhaps the error message should then instead be:
>
> "unable to use client certificate (no key found or wrong pass phrase)"
>
> (modified the explicitly mention client as well)

Yes.
That seems better...

Bye

Goetz

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Received on 2004-09-02