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| author | Nick Zitzmann <nickzman@gmail.com> | 2016-08-28 16:46:59 -0500 |
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| committer | Nick Zitzmann <nickzman@gmail.com> | 2016-08-28 16:46:59 -0500 |
| commit | e171968ba3ae44cae618c75b24cf7fd19a124be2 (patch) | |
| tree | 723cee4a35fb8f90b660c4ab9164ca1d37fe8459 /docs/libcurl | |
| parent | 0d729d9e015cba7a05e16a25b21156abf4ca6409 (diff) | |
| download | curl-e171968ba3ae44cae618c75b24cf7fd19a124be2.tar.gz | |
darwinssl: add documentation stating that the --cainfo option is intended for backward compatibility only
In other news, I changed one other reference to "Mac OS X" in the documentation (that I previously wrote) to say "macOS" instead.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_CAINFO.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_CAINFO.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_CAINFO.3 index a05f5c0cf..7db50a8fa 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_CAINFO.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_CAINFO.3 @@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ is assumed to be stored, as established at build time. If curl is built against the NSS SSL library, the NSS PEM PKCS#11 module (libnsspem.so) needs to be available for this option to work properly. + +(iOS and macOS only) If curl is built against Secure Transport, then this +option is supported for backward compatibility with other SSL engines, but it +should not be set. If the option is not set, then curl will use the +certificates in the system and user Keychain to verify the peer, which is the +preferred method of verifying the peer's certificate chain. .SH DEFAULT Built-in system specific .SH PROTOCOLS |