---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_PROXY_ISSUERCERT
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
  - CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT (3)
  - CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYHOST (3)
  - CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER (3)
  - CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST (3)
  - CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER (3)
Protocol:
  - TLS
TLS-backend:
  - OpenSSL
  - GnuTLS
Added-in: 7.71.0
---

# NAME

CURLOPT_PROXY_ISSUERCERT - proxy issuer SSL certificate filename

# SYNOPSIS

~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXY_ISSUERCERT, char *file);
~~~

# DESCRIPTION

Pass a char pointer to a null-terminated string naming a *file* holding a CA
certificate in PEM format. If the option is set, an additional check against
the peer certificate is performed to verify the issuer of the HTTPS proxy is
indeed the one associated with the certificate provided by the option. This
additional check is useful in multi-level PKI where one needs to enforce that
the peer certificate is from a specific branch of the tree.

The provided issuer certificate is used only for an issuer check against the
peer certificate; it is not validated or trusted by itself.

This option makes sense only when used in combination with the
CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER(3) option. Otherwise, the result of the check is
not considered as failure.

A specific error code (CURLE_SSL_ISSUER_ERROR) is defined with the option,
which is returned if the setup of the SSL/TLS session has failed due to a
mismatch with the issuer of peer certificate (CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER(3)
has to be set too for the check to fail).

The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
option.

Using this option multiple times makes the last set string override the
previous ones. Set it to NULL to disable its use again.

# DEFAULT

NULL

# %PROTOCOLS%

# EXAMPLE

~~~c
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
    /* using an HTTPS proxy */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "https://proxy.example:443");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY_ISSUERCERT, "/etc/certs/cacert.pem");
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}
~~~

# %AVAILABILITY%

# RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see
libcurl-errors(3).
