SSL Certificates - OS X Mavericks

Question

I am trying to connect to application on localhost which uses SSL. I am using Mac OS X Mavericks. The error I am getting is following:

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Answer 1

In some cases will be better to use standard curl (eg if you develop on Mac code for Linux or *BSD). In this case you can do like that:

1. Install Homebrew

2. Install curl with standard certificates support (no more Keychain certs).

   brew install curl --with-openssl && brew link curl --force

3. Install root CA certs from http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem into /usr/local/etc/openssl/certs/cacert.pem

4. Add into your ~/.bash_profile

   export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=/usr/local/etc/openssl/certs/cacert.pem

5. After 4 steps you can use curl with certificates from file, not from Keychain.

Answer 2

The option --with-openssl no longer works as of https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/36263

Just install curl-openssl instead of curl.

$ brew install curl-openssl

$ /usr/local/opt/curl-openssl/bin/curl --version
curl 7.64.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0) libcurl/7.64.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2r zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 c-ares/1.15.0 libssh2/1.8.2 nghttp2/1.38.0 librtmp/2.3
Release-Date: 2019-03-27
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS brotli GSS-API HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz Metalink NTLM NTLM_WB SPNEGO SSL TLS-SRP UnixSockets

Answer 3

There are two things you can do:

(1) Convert the .pem certificate to .p12:

openssl pkcs12 -export -out my_certificate.p12 -inkey my_certificate.pem -in my_certificate.pem`

and use it with curl with the PASSWORD you pick when converting:

curl --cert my_certificate.p12:PASSWORD.

(2) Drag the .pem file into your keychain, open the infopane, set it to 'always trust' for SSL and X.509, and note the COMMON-NAME. (name of certificate)

curl --cert COMMON-NAME

Both work for me on OSX 10.9 with cURL 7.35.0

Answer 4

--cacert and --cert are broken in OSX Mavericks.

You can read more about it here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/munki-dev/oX2xUnoQEi4

The workaround is here: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2013-10/0036.html which indicates that you need to import the certificate as a trusted system cert:

Import the certificate into the system ("System") or user ("login") keychain using Keychain Access and mark it as always trusted for SSL and X.509 basic policy.