PHP CURL & HTTPS

Question

I found this function that does an AWESOME job (IMHO): http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/06/php_tip_how_get_web_page_using_curl

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 * Get a web file (         


        

Answer 1

Another option like Gavin Palmer answer is to use the .pem file but with a curl option

1. download the last updated .pem file from https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html and save it somewhere on your server(outside the public folder)

2. set the option in your code instead of the php.ini file.

In your code

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .  "/../cacert-2017-09-20.pem");

NOTE: setting the cainfo in the php.ini like @Gavin Palmer did is better than setting it in your code like I did, because it will save a disk IO every time the function is called, I just make it like this in case you want to test the cainfo file on the fly instead of changing the php.ini while testing your function.