Hi,

When I set CURLOPT_CAINFO to a file, curl performs a https request and
gives me error: CURLE_SSL_CACERT_BADFILE. I am sure, the file is
accessible since it is given as absolute path. Strange that if I use
the same file as the "--cacert" option of curl command line, it works.

My code is like:

curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1L);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CAINFO, "/home/admin/cacert.pem");

Below is the file I use, please give advice why it fails. Thanks.

##
## ca-bundle.crt -- Bundle of CA Root Certificates
##
## Certificate data from Mozilla as of: Sun Feb 19 04:03:37 2012
##
## This is a bundle of X.509 certificates of public Certificate Authorities
## (CA). These were automatically extracted from Mozilla's root certificates
## file (certdata.txt). This file can be found in the mozilla source tree:
## http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/ckfw/builtins/certdata.txt?raw=1
##
## It contains the certificates in PEM format and therefore
## can be directly used with curl / libcurl / php_curl, or with
## an Apache+mod_ssl webserver for SSL client authentication.
## Just configure this file as the SSLCACertificateFile.
##

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# @(#) $RCSfile: certdata.txt,v $ $Revision: 1.82 $ $Date: 2012/02/18 21:41:46 $

GTE CyberTrust Global Root
==========================
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Thawte Server CA
================
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIDEzCCAnygAwIBAgIBATANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQQFADCBxDELMAkGA1UEBhMCWkExFTATBgNVBAgT
DFdlc3Rlcm4gQ2FwZTESMBAGA1UEBxMJQ2FwZSBUb3duMR0wGwYDVQQKExRUaGF3dGUgQ29uc3Vs
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1CcEJRCXL+eQbcAoQpnXTEPew/UhbVSfXcNY4cDk2VuwuNy0e982OsK1ZiIS1ocNAgMBAAGjEzAR
MA8GA1UdEwEB/wQFMAMBAf8wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEEBQADgYEAB/pMaVz7lcxG7oWDTSEwjsrZqG9J
GubaUeNgcGyEYRGhGshIPllDfU+VPaGLtwtimHp1it2ITk6eQNuozDJ0uW8NxuOzRAvZim+aKZuZ
GCg70eNAKJpaPNW15yAbi8qkq43pUdniTCxZqdq5snUb9kLy78fyGPmJvKP/iiMucEc=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Thawte Premium Server CA
========================
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIDJzCCApCgAwIBAgIBATANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQQFADCBzjELMAkGA1UEBhMCWkExFTATBgNVBAgT
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qgeN9EJN50CdHDcCAwEAAaMTMBEwDwYDVR0TAQH/BAUwAwEB/zANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQQFAAOBgQAm
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UCemDaYj+bvLpgcUQg==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

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