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SSL connections and authenticity

From: Dan Wood <dwood_at_karelia.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 16:26:54 -0800

I'm trying to verify that my use of libcurl can handle SSL -- and
without any fanfare, I'm able to connect to test sites like

https://www.stanford.edu/group/idg/leland/samples/secure/test.html

and I just get the page contents, no big deal.

However, I notice that another test site
<https://www.fortify.net/sslcheck.html> presents an error message:

SSL: error:14090086:SSL
routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

So I *think* that everything is OK, that SSL is fully working, and it's
paying attention to certificates. I'm not terribly familiar with these
kinds of issues, so can anybody who *is* verify that everything is as
expected? Any other ways that I can test that SSL is working properly?

--
Dan Wood
Karelia Software, LLC
dwood_at_karelia.com
http://www.karelia.com/
Watson for Mac OS X: http://www.karelia.com/watson/
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Received on 2002-11-11