curl-ssl tagged requests and articles

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How to ignore invalid and self-signed SSL certificate errors in Curl?
To ignore invalid and self-signed certificate checks on Curl, use the -k or --insecure command-line option. This option allows Curl to perform "insecure" SSL connections and skip SSL certificate checks while you still have SSL-encrypted communications. If you make an HTTPS request to a resource with an invalid or expired SSL certificate without the -k or --insecure option, you will receive a curl: (60) SSL certificate: invalid certificate chain: error message. Click Run to execute the Curl Ignore Certificate request online and see the result.

How do I use Curl with SSL connections?
Curl has built-in support for Secure Transport connections (its more secure version is called TLS). When you make a Curl request for an HTTPS URL, Curl automatically checks the target URL's SSL certificate against the local CA certificate store and warns if it is invalid, self-signed, or has expired. This is great for production websites but inconvenient for development. To bypass SSL certificate checks, you can use the -k or --insecure Curl command-line options. Click Run to execute the Curl SSL Request example online and see the results.

How do I use curl -k option?
The curl -k (or --insecure) command line option ignores invalid and self-signed certificate errors. This setting allows Curl to make an "insecure" SSL connection and skip SSL certificate checks while you still have an SSL-encrypted connection. This may be useful for development purposes. Making an HTTPS request to a resource with an invalid or expired SSL certificate without the -k or --insecure option will result in curl: "(60) SSL certificate: invalid certificate chain: error message". In this Curl -k example, we request a URL with an expired SSL certificate and still get a response. Click Run to execute the Curl -k example online and see the result.