cURL and SSL

[denoteone]

I am using the following code.

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

 

I was given a .cer file should I set CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER to TRUE  and set the path to the .cer file?

 

Any help would be awesome.

Thanks

[schilly]

Is the URL https? And is the URL domain your site or someone else's?

[denoteone]

The url is https  and it is not my server

[schilly]

Then I don't think you should need to set that flag. I've never used it for any of the cURL https stuff I've done.

[denoteone]

OK so the server I am connecting to gave me the  CA Root certificate

 

I am going to use cURL but don't want to download the certificate when I browse to the page because that will expire.

 

Is there any other way of me connecting via https using the ca certificate?

[schilly]

I'm not too sure.