[cpp-netlib-devel] load a certificate

[Benjamin W. <we...@tr...>]

Hi all,

first I want to thank you for the great work you did writing this 
library! It really helps me a lot!
I have been working on integrating openssl and writing an own 
minimalistic dummy-HTTP-client when I discovered this awesome projekt 
just in time.

I work on a cross-platform library and that library has to communicate 
with one specific HTTPS server.
To authenticate the server, we receive (in advance) an X509-certificate 
to build into our software.

I would like to ask you if it is possible to load one or more specific 
CA-certificates for a HTTPS client connection (doesn't matter if from 
file or from memory).

I've already had a look at the source code and saw that the method 
"https_sync_connection" takes a string-argument "certificate_filename",
but I saw no way to pass such a filename at the high-level-api.
Is this parameter solely used to load system-default CA-certificates?
If not, could you please explain to me how I can load a certificate from 
file or memory?

Thank you very much in advance and good luck with this project!

Greetings from Switzerland,

Benjamin Weibel