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| author | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2020-03-26 18:11:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2020-03-26 18:46:15 -0400 |
| commit | 0d0537aeae2acdbdb43c6aab834abf84ca7ba247 (patch) | |
| tree | ccb9c6a055448bb546ae9a02f632afa4581cda57 | |
| parent | 6d45588ba396ebe663ccd0ba24e3969ad897d0b8 (diff) | |
| download | curl-0d0537aeae2acdbdb43c6aab834abf84ca7ba247.tar.gz | |
SSLCERTS.md: Fix example code for setting CA cert file
Prior to this change the documentation erroneously said use
CURLOPT_CAPATH to set a CA cert file.
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2020-03/0121.html
Reported-by: Timothe Litt
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/5151
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/SSLCERTS.md | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/SSLCERTS.md b/docs/SSLCERTS.md index 2c5be68e6..fcbc4646e 100644 --- a/docs/SSLCERTS.md +++ b/docs/SSLCERTS.md @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ server, do one of the following: 2. Get a CA certificate that can verify the remote server and use the proper option to point out this CA cert for verification when connecting. For - libcurl hackers: `curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CAPATH, capath);` + libcurl hackers: `curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CAINFO, cacert);` With the curl command line tool: --cacert [file] @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ server, do one of the following: the security is no better than the way you obtained the certificate. 4. If you're using the curl command line tool, you can specify your own CA - cert path by setting the environment variable `CURL_CA_BUNDLE` to the path + cert file by setting the environment variable `CURL_CA_BUNDLE` to the path of your choice. If you're using the curl command line tool on Windows, curl will search |