PHP CURL CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER ignored

According to documentation: to verify host or peer certificate you need to specify alternate certificates with the CURLOPT_CAINFO option or a certificate directory can be specified with the CURLOPT_CAPATH option.

Also look at CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST:

• 1 to check the existence of a common name in the SSL peer certificate.
• 2 to check the existence of a common name and also verify that it matches the hostname provided.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

We had the same problem on a CentOS7 machine. Disabling the VERIFYHOST VERIFYPEER did not solve the problem, we did not have the cURL error anymore but the response still was invalid. Doing a wget to the same link as the cURL was doing also resulted in a certificate error.

-> Our solution also was to reboot the VPS, this solved it and we were able to complete the request again.

For us this seemed to be a memory corruption problem. Rebooting the VPS reloaded the libary in the memory again and now it works. So if the above solution from @clover does not work try to reboot your machine.