curl/docs/cmdline-opts/capath.md
Viktor Szakats 8a3740bc8e
curl: support embedding a CA bundle
Add the ability to embed a CA bundle into the curl binary. It is used
when no other runtime or build-time option set one.

This helps curl-for-win macOS and Linux builds to run standalone, and
also helps Windows builds to avoid picking up the CA bundle from an
arbitrary (possibly world-writable) location (though this behaviour is
not currently disablable).

Usage:
- cmake: `-DCURL_CA_EMBED=/path/to/curl-ca-bundle.crt`
- autotools: `--with-ca-embed=/path/to/curl-ca-bundle.crt`
- Makefile.mk: `CURL_CA_EMBED=/path/to/curl-ca-bundle.crt`

Also add new command-line option `--dump-ca-embed` to dump the embedded
CA bundle to standard output.

Closes #14059
2024-08-03 09:22:26 +02:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Long: capath
Arg: <dir>
Help: CA directory to verify peer against
Protocols: TLS
Category: tls
Added: 7.9.8
Multi: single
See-also:
- cacert
- dump-ca-embed
- insecure
Example:
- --capath /local/directory $URL
---
# `--capath`
Use the specified certificate directory to verify the peer. Multiple paths can
be provided by separated with colon (`:`) (e.g. `path1:path2:path3`). The
certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl is built against OpenSSL, the
directory must have been processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with
OpenSSL. Using --capath can allow OpenSSL-powered curl to make SSL-connections
much more efficiently than using --cacert if the --cacert file contains many
CA certificates.
If this option is set, the default capath value is ignored.