CURLINFO_CERTINFO(3)

CURLINFO_CERTINFO3

Get the tls certificate chain

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CERTINFO,
                           struct curl_certinfo **chainp);

Overview

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

All TLS-based

Examples

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.

Return value

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

Releases

66 releases since macOS 10.12; the text changed 13 times.

  1. 10.12–10.12.1
  2. 10.12.2–10.12.5
  3. 10.12.6–10.14.6
  4. 10.15–11.5
  5. 12.0.1–12.2
  6. 12.3–12.5
  7. 13.0
  8. 13.1
  9. 13.2
  10. 13.3
  11. 13.4
  12. 13.5–14.1
  13. 14.2–14.4
  14. 14.5–26.5

Availability

This option is only working in libcurl built with OpenSSL, GnuTLS, Schannel or Secure Transport. GnuTLS support added in 7.42.0. Schannel support added in 7.50.0. Secure Transport support added in 7.79.0.

Added in 7.19.1

From curl 166.0.0.0.1 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.