1Mozilla::CA(3)        User Contributed Perl Documentation       Mozilla::CA(3)
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NAME

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

9           use IO::Socket::SSL;
10           use Mozilla::CA;
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12           my $host = "www.paypal.com";
13           my $client = IO::Socket::SSL->new(
14               PeerHost => "$host:443",
15               SSL_verify_mode => 0x02,
16               SSL_ca_file => Mozilla::CA::SSL_ca_file(),
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18               || die "Can't connect: $@";
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20           $client->verify_hostname($host, "http")
21               || die "hostname verification failure";
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DESCRIPTION

24       Mozilla::CA provides a copy of Mozilla's bundle of Certificate
25       Authority certificates in a form that can be consumed by modules and
26       libraries based on OpenSSL.
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28       The module provide a single function:
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30       SSL_ca_file()
31           Returns the absolute path to the Mozilla's CA cert bundle PEM file.
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SEE ALSO

34       <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html>
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LICENSE

37       For the bundled Mozilla CA PEM file the following applies:
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39           This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
40           License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
41           file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
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43       The Mozilla::CA distribution itself is available under the same
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48perl v5.38.0                      2023-08-03                    Mozilla::CA(3)
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