The problem
From PHP, you can access the useful cURL Library (libcurl) to make requests to URLs using a variety of protocols such as HTTP, FTP, LDAP.
If you simply try to access a HTTPS (SSL or TLS-protected resource) in PHP using cURL, you’re likely to run into some difficulty. Say you have the following code: (Error handling omitted for brevity)
// Initialize session and set URL.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// Set so curl_exec returns the result instead of outputting it.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Get the response and close the channel.
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
If
$url
points toward an HTTPS resource, you’re likely to encounter an error like the one below:Failed: Error Number: 60. Reason: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed.
The quick fix
There are two ways to solve this problem. Firstly, we can simply configure cURL to accept any server(peer) certificate.
This isn’t optimal from a security point of view, but if you’re not passing sensitive information back and forth, this is probably alright.
Simply add the following line before calling
curl_exec()
:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
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