Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  SEE ALSO  LICENSE 

NAME

Mozilla::CA − Mozilla’s CA cert bundle in PEM format

SYNOPSIS

use IO::Socket::SSL;
use Mozilla::CA;
my $host = "www.paypal.com";
my $client = IO::Socket::SSL−>new(
PeerHost => "$host:443",
SSL_verify_mode => 0x02,
SSL_ca_file => Mozilla::CA::SSL_ca_file(),
)
|| die "Can't connect: $@";
$client−>verify_hostname($host, "http")
|| die "hostname verification failure";

DESCRIPTION

Mozilla::CA provides a copy of Mozilla’s bundle of Certificate Authority certificates in a form that can be consumed by modules and libraries based on OpenSSL.

The module provide a single function:
SSL_ca_file()

Returns the absolute path to the Mozilla’s CA cert bundle PEM file.

SEE ALSO

<http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html>

LICENSE

For the bundled Mozilla CA PEM file the following applies:

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

The Mozilla::CA distribution itself is available under the same license.


Updated 2024-01-29 - jenkler.se | uex.se