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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/capath.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/capath.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ecd28df24 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/capath.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +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 + - insecure +Example: + - --capath /local/directory $URL +--- + +# `--capath` + +Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the +peer. Multiple paths can be provided by separating them with ":" (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. |