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CURLINFO_CAINFO - default built-in CA certificate path

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  PROTOCOLS  EXAMPLE  AVAILABILITY  RETURN VALUE  SEE ALSO 

NAME

CURLINFO_CAINFO − default built−in CA certificate path

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CAINFO, char **path);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer to a char pointer to receive the pointer to a null−terminated string holding the default built−in path used for the CURLOPT_CAINFO(3) option unless set by the user.

Note that in a situation where libcurl has been built to support multiple TLS libraries, this option might return a string even if the specific TLS library currently set to be used does not support CURLOPT_CAINFO(3).

This is a path identifying a single file containing CA certificates.

The path pointer is set to NULL if there is no default path.

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.

All TLS backends support this option.

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
char *cainfo = NULL;
curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CAINFO, &cainfo);
if(cainfo) {
printf("default ca info path: %s\n", cainfo);
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.84.0

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non−zero means an error occurred, see libcurl−errors(3).

SEE ALSO

CURLINFO_CAPATH(3), curl_easy_getinfo(3), curl_easy_setopt(3)


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se