Mozilla::CA(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mozilla::CA(3pm)NAMEMozilla::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";
DESCRIPTIONMozilla::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:
The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License
Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License
at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
the License for the specific language governing rights and
limitations under the License.
The Original Code is the Netscape security libraries.
The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape
Communications Corporation. Portions created by the Initial
Developer are Copyright (C) 1994-2000 the Initial Developer. All
Rights Reserved.
Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the
terms of either the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later
(the "GPL"), or the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1
or later (the "LGPL"), in which case the provisions of the GPL or
the LGPL are applicable instead of those above. If you wish to
allow use of your version of this file only under the terms of
either the GPL or the LGPL, and not to allow others to use your
version of this file under the terms of the MPL, indicate your
decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the
notice and other provisions required by the GPL or the LGPL. If you
do not delete the provisions above, a recipient may use your
version of this file under the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL
or the LGPL.
The Mozilla::CA distribution itself is available under the same
license.
perl v5.10.1 2011-04-09 Mozilla::CA(3pm)
