CURLOPT_CA_CACHE_TIMEOUT(3) Library Functions ManualCURLOPT_CA_CACHE_TIMEOUT(3)
NAME
CURLOPT_CA_CACHE_TIMEOUT - life-time for cached certificate stores
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_CA_CACHE_TIMEOUT, long age);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a long, this sets the timeout in seconds. This tells libcurl the
maximum time any cached CA certificate store it has in memory may be
kept and reused for new connections. Once the timeout has expired, a
subsequent fetch requiring a CA certificate has to reload it.
Building a CA certificate store from a CURLOPT_CAINFO(3) file is a slow
operation so curl may cache the generated certificate store internally
to speed up future connections.
Set the timeout to zero to completely disable caching, or set to -1 to
retain the cached store remain forever. By default, libcurl caches this
info for 24 hours.
DEFAULT
86400 (24 hours)
PROTOCOLS
This functionality affects all TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS,
POP3S, SMTPS etc.
This option works only with the following TLS backends: GnuTLS, OpenSSL,
Schannel and wolfSSL
EXAMPLE
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
/* only reuse certificate stores for a short time */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CA_CACHE_TIMEOUT, 60L);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
/* in this second request, the cache is not used if more than
sixty seconds passed since the previous connection */
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
HISTORY
This option is supported by OpenSSL and its forks (since 7.87.0), Schan-
nel (since 8.5.0), wolfSSL (since 8.9.0) and GnuTLS (since 8.9.0).
AVAILABILITY
Added in curl 7.87.0
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).
SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_CAINFO(3), CURLOPT_CAINFO_BLOB(3), CURLOPT_CAPATH(3), CUR-
LOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST(3), CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER(3)
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