PHP - curl_exec hangs

Question

I am having a strange problem with the below php function. Unfortunately this is one of those special \"Production only\" case.

function requestPost($url, $data)         


        

Answer 1

NSS is more strict than either OpenSSL or GnuTLS. Fedora/RHEL curl defaults to using NSS over OpenSSL, and can catch errors that don't arise using curl on OSX, Ubuntu, etc.

Here's a list of NSS error codes http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslerr.html

[root@mybox ~]# curl -k -v -E /etc/mycert.pem https://127.0.0.1/
* About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 443 (#0)
* Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
* warning: ignoring value of ssl.verifyhost
* NSS error -8054
* Closing connection #0
* SSL connect error
curl: (35) SSL connect error