.\" ************************************************************************** .\" * _ _ ____ _ .\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| | .\" * / __| | | | |_) | | .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * .\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms .\" * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is .\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. .\" * .\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY .\" * KIND, either express or implied. .\" * .\" ************************************************************************** .\" .TH CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER 3 "December 16, 2016" "libcurl 7.73.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" .SH NAME CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER \- verify the proxy's SSL certificate .SH SYNOPSIS #include CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER, long verify); .SH DESCRIPTION Pass a long as parameter set to 1L to enable or 0L to disable. This option tells curl to verifies the authenticity of the HTTPS proxy's certificate. A value of 1 means curl verifies; 0 (zero) means it doesn't. This is the proxy version of \fICURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER(3)\fP that's used for ordinary HTTPS servers. When negotiating a TLS or SSL connection, the server sends a certificate indicating its identity. Curl verifies whether the certificate is authentic, i.e. that you can trust that the server is who the certificate says it is. This trust is based on a chain of digital signatures, rooted in certification authority (CA) certificates you supply. curl uses a default bundle of CA certificates (the path for that is determined at build time) and you can specify alternate certificates with the \fICURLOPT_PROXY_CAINFO(3)\fP option or the \fICURLOPT_PROXY_CAPATH(3)\fP option. When \fICURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER(3)\fP is enabled, and the verification fails to prove that the certificate is authentic, the connection fails. When the option is zero, the peer certificate verification succeeds regardless. Authenticating the certificate is not enough to be sure about the server. You typically also want to ensure that the server is the server you mean to be talking to. Use \fICURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYHOST(3)\fP for that. The check that the host name in the certificate is valid for the host name you're connecting to is done independently of the \fICURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER(3)\fP option. WARNING: disabling verification of the certificate allows bad guys to man-in-the-middle the communication without you knowing it. Disabling verification makes the communication insecure. Just having encryption on a transfer is not enough as you cannot be sure that you are communicating with the correct end-point. .SH DEFAULT 1 .SH PROTOCOLS All .SH EXAMPLE .nf CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); /* Set the default value: strict certificate check please */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1L); curl_easy_perform(curl); } .fi .SH AVAILABILITY Added in 7.52.0 If built TLS enabled. .SH RETURN VALUE Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYHOST "(3), " .BR CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER "(3), " .BR CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST "(3), "