---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_CERTINFO
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
  - CURLINFO_CAINFO (3)
  - CURLINFO_CAPATH (3)
  - CURLINFO_CERTINFO (3)
  - CURLOPT_CAINFO (3)
  - CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER (3)
Protocol:
  - TLS
TLS-backend:
  - OpenSSL
  - GnuTLS
  - Schannel
  - rustls
Added-in: 7.19.1
---

# NAME

CURLOPT_CERTINFO - request SSL certificate information

# SYNOPSIS

~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_CERTINFO, long certinfo);
~~~

# DESCRIPTION

Pass a long set to 1 to enable libcurl's certificate chain info gatherer. With
this enabled, libcurl extracts lots of information and data about the
certificates in the certificate chain used in the SSL connection. This data
may then be retrieved after a transfer using curl_easy_getinfo(3) and
its option CURLINFO_CERTINFO(3).

# DEFAULT

0

# %PROTOCOLS%

# EXAMPLE

~~~c
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.example.com/");

    /* connect to any HTTPS site, trusted or not */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CERTINFO, 1L);

    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

    if(!res) {
      struct curl_certinfo *ci;
      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CERTINFO, &ci);

      if(!res) {
        int i;
        printf("%d certs!\n", ci->num_of_certs);

        for(i = 0; i < ci->num_of_certs; i++) {
          struct curl_slist *slist;

          for(slist = ci->certinfo[i]; slist; slist = slist->next)
            printf("%s\n", slist->data);
        }
      }
    }
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}
~~~

# HISTORY

Schannel support added in 7.50.0. mbedTLS support added in 8.9.0.

# %AVAILABILITY%

# RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(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).
