How to get SSL certificate info with CURL in PHP?

php ssl curl https

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Solution 1

No. EDIT: A CURLINFO_CERTINFO option has been added to PHP 5.3.2. See http://bugs.php.net/49253

Apparently, that information is being given to you by your proxy in the response headers. If you want to rely on that, you can use curl's CURLOPT_HEADER option to trueto include the headers in the output.

However, to retrieve the certificate without relying on some proxy, you must do

<?php
$g = stream_context_create (array("ssl" => array("capture_peer_cert" => true)));
$r = fopen("https://www.google.com/", "rb", false, $g);
$cont = stream_context_get_params($r);
var_dump($cont["options"]["ssl"]["peer_certificate"]);

You can manipulate the value of $cont["options"]["ssl"]["peer_certificate"] with the OpenSSL extension.

EDIT: This option is better since it doesn't actually make the HTTP request and does not require allow_url_fopen:

<?php
$g = stream_context_create (array("ssl" => array("capture_peer_cert" => true)));
$r = stream_socket_client("ssl://www.google.com:443", $errno, $errstr, 30,
    STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, $g);
$cont = stream_context_get_params($r);
var_dump($cont["options"]["ssl"]["peer_certificate"]);

Solution 2

You will get the certificate as a resource using stream_context_get_params. Plug that resource into $certinfo = openssl_x509_parse($cert['options']['ssl']['peer_certificate']); to get more certificate information.

$url = "http://www.google.com";
$orignal_parse = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
$get = stream_context_create(array("ssl" => array("capture_peer_cert" => TRUE)));
$read = stream_socket_client("ssl://".$orignal_parse.":443", $errno, $errstr, 30, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, $get);
$cert = stream_context_get_params($read);
$certinfo = openssl_x509_parse($cert['options']['ssl']['peer_certificate']);
print_r($certinfo);

Example result

Solution 3

To do this in php and curl:

<?php
if($fp = tmpfile())
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.digicert.com/");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_STDERR, $fp);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CERTINFO, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,  2);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_errno($ch)==0 or die("Error:".curl_errno($ch)." ".curl_error($ch));
    fseek($fp, 0);//rewind
    $str='';
    while(strlen($str.=fread($fp,8192))==8192);
    echo $str;
    fclose($fp);
}
?>

Solution 4

This code snippet isn't using curl specifically, but it retrieves and prints the remote certificate text (can be manipulated to return whatever detail you want using the various openssl_ functions)

$g = stream_context_create (array("ssl" => array("capture_peer_cert" => true)));
$r = fopen("https://somesite/my/path/", "rb", false, $g);
$cont = stream_context_get_params($r);
openssl_x509_export($cont["options"]["ssl"]["peer_certificate"],$cert);
print $cert;

outputs:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...certificate content...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

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Updated on July 19, 2022

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Radek Suski almost 2 years

I would like to be able to read the SSL certificate information with CURL. From the Linux console I get this response header:

GET https://www.google.com/ -ed
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Connection: close
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:34:12 GMT
Server: gws
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Expires: -1
Client-Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:34:18 GMT
Client-Peer: 66.102.13.106:443
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-SSL-Cert-Issuer: /C=ZA/O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd./CN=Thawte SGC CA
Client-SSL-Cert-Subject: /C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/CN=www.google.com
Client-SSL-Cipher: RC4-SHA
Client-SSL-Warning: Peer certificate not verified
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=4d56960f6e3ad831:TM=1277069652:LM=1277069652:S=GF-w8Yc-_61NBzzJ; expires=Tue, 19-Jun-2012 21:34:12 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Title: Google
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

But with CURL the header is much shorter:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:39:07 GMT
Expires: -1
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=2d4fb1c933eebd09:TM=1277069947:LM=1277069947:S=6_TgGKzD0rM4IWms; expires=Tue, 19-Jun-2012 21:39:07 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Server: gws
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Is there any possibility to get these information, the full header with CURL or with some other PHP function?