Philippe de Rochambeau wrote: > Hello, > > I have just generated a self-signed certificate as follows: > > openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in my.domain.csr -signkey my.domain.key > -out my.domain.cert > > What format is my.domain.cert now in?
OpenSSL uses PEM format as default. There are options to generate other output formats (-outform) but this is not necessary for curl. > I am asking this because I am trying to use this certificate with curl > as in > > curl --cert my.domain.cert https://my.secure.server > > But when I do that, I get the following message: > > curl: (35) unable to set private key file > > Any help with this matter would be much appreciated. I guess you have to tell curl where to find the secret key (the certificate file only contains your public key). There is a curl option called "--key", so something like: curl --cert my.domain.cert --key your.key.file https://my.secure.server will probably work. Cheers, Olaf -- Dipl.Inform. Olaf Gellert PRESECURE (R) Senior Researcher, Consulting GmbH Phone: (+49) 0700 / PRESECURE [EMAIL PROTECTED] A daily view on Internet Attacks https://www.ecsirt.net/sensornet ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
