NAME¶

CURLINFO_CERTINFO - get the TLS certificate chain

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CERTINFO,


                           struct curl_certinfo **chainp);

DESCRIPTION¶

Pass a pointer to a struct curl_certinfo * and it is set to point to a struct that holds info about the server's certificate chain, assuming you had CURLOPT_CERTINFO(3) enabled when the request was made.

struct curl_certinfo {


  int num_of_certs;


  struct curl_slist **certinfo;
};

The certinfo struct member is an array of linked lists of certificate information. The num_of_certs struct member is the number of certificates which is the number of elements in the array. Each certificate's list has items with textual information in the format "name:content" such as "Subject:Foo", "Issuer:Bar", etc. The items in each list varies depending on the SSL backend and the certificate.

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 rustls

EXAMPLE¶

int main(void)
{


  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();


  if(curl) {


    CURLcode res;


    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.example.com/");


    /* connect to any HTTPS site, trusted or not */


    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);


    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);


    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CERTINFO, 1L);


    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);


    if(!res) {


      int i;


      struct curl_certinfo *ci;


      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CERTINFO, &ci);


      if(!res) {


        printf("%d certs!\n", ci->num_of_certs);


        for(i = 0; i < ci->num_of_certs; i++) {


          struct curl_slist *slist;


          for(slist = ci->certinfo[i]; slist; slist = slist->next)


            printf("%s\n", slist->data);


        }


      }


    }


    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);


  }
}

See also the certinfo.c example.

HISTORY¶

GnuTLS support added in 7.42.0. Schannel support added in 7.50.0. mbedTLS support added in 8.9.0.

AVAILABILITY¶

Added in curl 7.19.1

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_CAPATH(3), curl_easy_getinfo(3), curl_easy_setopt(3)