OpenSSL Ignore Self-signed certificate error

Question

I\'m writing a small program with the OpenSSL library that is suppose to establish a connection with an SSLv3 server. This server dispenses a self-signed certificate, which caus

Answer 1

You could try passing your own callback to SSL_set_verify() and then doing your own verification. It's less than ideal as I think you then need to do all of the verification and then allow the self signed error to be ignored, but you should be able to work out what the standard verify code does from the OpenSSL source and then simply pull it into your own verification callback and allow the specific error code...