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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: capath Arg: Help: CA directory to verify peer against Protocols: TLS Category: tls Added: 7.9.8 Multi: single See-also:

• cacert
• insecure Example:
• --capath /local/directory $URL

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--capath

Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the peer. Multiple paths can be provided by separating them with “:” (e.g. “path1:path2:path3”). The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl is built against OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with OpenSSL. Using --capath can allow OpenSSL-powered curl to make SSL-connections much more efficiently than using --cacert if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates.

If this option is set, the default capath value is ignored.