Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format

  1. SYNOPSIS
  2. DESCRIPTION
  3. SEE ALSO
  4. LICENSE

SYNOPSIS

use IO::Socket::SSL;
use Mozilla::CA;

my $host = "www.paypal.com";
my $client = IO::Socket::SSL->new(
    PeerHost => "$host:443",
    SSL_verify_mode => 0x02,
    SSL_ca_file => Mozilla::CA::SSL_ca_file(),
)
    || die "Can't connect: $@";

$client->verify_hostname($host, "http")
    || die "hostname verification failure";

DESCRIPTION

Mozilla::CA provides a copy of Mozilla's bundle of Certificate Authority certificates in a form that can be consumed by modules and libraries based on OpenSSL.

The module provide a single function:

SSL_ca_file()

Returns the absolute path to the Mozilla's CA cert bundle PEM file.

SEE ALSO

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html

LICENSE

For the bundled Mozilla CA PEM file the following applies:

The Mozilla::CA distribution itself is available under the same license.