Add self signed certificate to ubuntu for use with curl

This is one way that worked for me:

First, get the CA cert from the development domain and save it to a file called 'logfile'. (Assumes port 443 for SSL)

openssl s_client -connect xxxxx.com:443 |tee logfile

Then, use the --cacert curl option to use the saved certificate file.

curl --cacert logfile **THE REST OF YOUR CURL COMMAND**

ssl curl ssl-certificate

I'd copy the certificate to /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/.

Let me quote the man page for update-ca-certificates:

Furthermore all certificates with a .crt extension found below /usr/local/share/ca-certificates are also included as implicitly trusted.

ssl curl ssl-certificate

Add your rootCA.pem in /usr/share/ca-certificates directory.

After that update your certificates with: update-ca-certificates --fresh command.

I just did that, and works fine.

CodeHunter