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Re: error "60 SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK"

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:43:36 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Eric Greene wrote:

> I have a cURL script that is returning the above error - "60 SSL certificate
> problem, verify that the CA cert is OK"
>
> I do not believe there is a problem with the cert on the remote server,
> because I can run the same cURL script on another server and get the posted
> results returned without error.

The problem here is with the CA cert bundle, which you have locally on the
host that runs curl.

> Script on server that doesn't get the error is running Linux, with following
> version info:

Linux installations typically get a ca cert bundle installed. curl on windows
rarely do.

> Hoping someone on the list might be able to offer any insight. It appears
> that both the OpenSSL version and libcurl versions are considerably dated.
> Upgrade to both would be recommended?

Yes. Those versions are way old and even suffer from (multiple) security
problems.

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Received on 2007-04-26