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Re: curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

From: 黃碩達 <huangsd2001_at_yahoo.com.tw>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:15:33 +0800 (CST)

 --- Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se> 的訊息:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, [big5] 黃碩達 wrote:
>
> > Is there any security operation if I write
> "curl_easy_setopt(curl,
> > CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);", after I read the
> doc about this option, I
> > know it will not verify the server side
> certificate when estabilish
> > connection. If so, if I transfer some data by this
> connection will it be
> > protected ?
>
> When not verifying the peer, you don't know that the
> peer is who it claims to
> be, so you may in fact communicate with an impostor.
>
> So yes, you will still get a SSL connection that is
> encrypted, but you may be
> talking to someone else than you think it is.
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- http://curl.haxx.se --
> http://daniel.haxx.se
> Dedicated custom curl help for hire:
http://haxx.se/curl.html
Thanks alot..

=====
國立中山大學資訊工程學系.Huang Shuo-Da(黃碩達)
National Sun Yat-Sen University
Department of Computer Science Engineering
http://huangsd.dormf.nsysu.edu.tw/~startss
E-Mail:huangsd2001_at_yahoo.com.tw Tel:5254333

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