CURLINFO_S...ERIFYRESULT(3) Library Functions ManualCURLINFO_S...ERIFYRESULT(3)
NAME
CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT - get the result of the certificate verifica-
tion
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT,
long *result);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a pointer to a long to receive the result of the server SSL cer-
tificate verification that was requested (using the CURLOPT_SSL_VERI-
FYPEER(3) option).
0 is a positive result. Non-zero is an error.
PROTOCOLS
This functionality affects all TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS,
POP3S, SMTPS etc.
This option works only with the following TLS backends: GnuTLS and
OpenSSL
EXAMPLE
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
long verifyresult;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if(res) {
printf("error: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res));
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
return 1;
}
res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT,
&verifyresult);
if(!res) {
printf("The peer verification said %s\n",
(verifyresult ? "bad" : "fine"));
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
AVAILABILITY
Added in curl 7.5
RETURN VALUE
curl_easy_getinfo(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
CURLINFO_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYRESULT(3), curl_easy_getinfo(3), curl_easy_se-
topt(3)
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