A dumb question, but just in case... did you build or download a
windows libcurl binaries that have SSL enabled?

There are licensing issues around SSL support so some windows binaries
you can download don't have SSL enabled.

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Thomas Mayer <thomas_at_residuum.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am developping a library for Puredata to make RESTful web requests.
>
> Everything is working quite well with libcurl, but I have a problem
> using SSL secured requests in Windows.
>
> I am cross compiling libcurl on Linux using MXE, but I get SSL errors
> when setting the path to the cacert.pem from the library.
>
> This is what I have tried:
> I am setting the cacert path using
>
> curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, common->cert_path);
>
> where common->cert_path is char[2048] (not a pointer, just for testing)
> and is C:/Program Files (x86)/pd/extra/purest_json/cacert.pem
>
> cacert.pem is the download from http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html,
> and I have set read/write access to everyone, I have already tried
> replacing slashes with backslashes.
>
> Here are the configure scripts from MXE that I have tried and the error
> codes:
>
> gnutls:
> -------
> ./configure \
> --host='$(TARGET)' \
> --build="`config.guess`" \
> --disable-shared \
> --prefix='$(PREFIX)/$(TARGET)' \
> --with-gnutls \
> --without-ssl \
> --with-libidn \
> --enable-sspi \
> --enable-ipv6 \
> --with-libssh2
>
> error code: CURLE_SSL_CACERT_BADFILE (77)
>
> openssl:
> --------
> ./configure \
> --host='$(TARGET)' \
> --build="`config.guess`" \
> --disable-shared \
> --prefix='$(PREFIX)/$(TARGET)' \
> --without-gnutls \
> --with-ssl \
> --with-libidn \
> --enable-sspi \
> --enable-ipv6 \
> --with-libssh2
>
> error code: CURLE_SSL_CERTPROBLEM (58)
>
> My C code for using libcurl is at
> https://github.com/residuum/PuRestJson/blob/master/ctw.c
>
> Thanks for you help,
> Thomas
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