- We're no longer providing a very old ca-bundle in the curl tarball. You can

get a fresh one downloaded and created with 'make ca-bundle' or you can get
  one from here => http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html if you want a fresh
  new one extracted from Mozilla's recent list of ca certs.

  The configure option --with-ca-bundle now lets you specify what file to use
  as default ca bundle for your build. If not specified, the configure script
  will check a few known standard places for a global ca cert to use.

CHANGES

@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel S (18 Feb 2008)
+- We're no longer providing a very old ca-bundle in the curl tarball. You can
+  get a fresh one downloaded and created with 'make ca-bundle' or you can get
+  one from here => http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html if you want a fresh
+  new one extracted from Mozilla's recent list of ca certs.
+
+  The configure option --with-ca-bundle now lets you specify what file to use
+  as default ca bundle for your build. If not specified, the configure script
+  will check a few known standard places for a global ca cert to use.
+
 Daniel S (17 Feb 2008)
 - Jerome Muffat-Meridol helped me fix Curl_done() to close the current
   connection by force when it was called before the entire request is

RELEASE-NOTES

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ This release includes the following changes:
  
  o added support for HttpOnly cookies
  o 'make ca-bundle' downloads and generates an updated ca bundle file
+ o we no longer distribute or install a ca cert bundle
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 

acinclude.m4

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 #                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 #
-# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2007, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2008, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 #
 # This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 # you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -2491,3 +2491,50 @@ AC_DEFUN([CURL_CHECK_NATIVE_WINDOWS], [
   esac
 ])
 
+
+dnl CURL_CHECK_CA_BUNDLE
+dnl -------------------------------------------------
+dnl Check if a default ca-bundle should be used
+dnl
+dnl regarding the paths this will scan:
+dnl /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt Debian systems
+dnl /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt Redhat and Mandriva
+dnl /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt old(er) Redhat
+
+AC_DEFUN([CURL_CHECK_CA_BUNDLE], [
+
+  AC_MSG_CHECKING([default CA cert bundle])
+
+  AC_ARG_WITH(ca-bundle,
+AC_HELP_STRING([--with-ca-bundle=FILE], [File name to use as CA bundle])
+AC_HELP_STRING([--without-ca-bundle], [Don't use a default CA bundle]),
+  [ ca="$withval" ],
+  [
+    dnl the path we previously would have installed the curl ca bundle
+    dnl to, and thus we now check for an already existing cert in that place
+    dnl in case we find no other
+    if test "x$prefix" != xNONE; then
+      cac="\${prefix}/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt"
+    else
+      cac="$ac_default_prefix/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt"
+    fi
+
+    for a in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt \
+             /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt \
+             /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt \
+             "$cac"; do
+      if test -f $a; then
+        ca="$a"
+        break
+      fi
+    done
+    ]
+  )
+
+  if test "x$ca" != "xno"; then
+    CURL_CA_BUNDLE='"'$ca'"'
+    AC_SUBST(CURL_CA_BUNDLE)
+  fi
+  AC_MSG_RESULT([$ca])
+])
+

configure.ac

@@ -1610,28 +1610,7 @@ dnl **********************************************************************
 dnl Check for the CA bundle
 dnl **********************************************************************
 
-if test X"$SSL_ENABLED" != "X"; then
+CURL_CHECK_CA_BUNDLE
-
-  AC_MSG_CHECKING([CA cert bundle install path])
-
-  AC_ARG_WITH(ca-bundle,
-AC_HELP_STRING([--with-ca-bundle=FILE], [File name to install the CA bundle as])
-AC_HELP_STRING([--without-ca-bundle], [Don't install the CA bundle]),
-    [ ca="$withval" ],
-    [
-      if test "x$prefix" != xNONE; then
-        ca="\${prefix}/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt"
-      else
-        ca="$ac_default_prefix/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt"
-      fi
-    ] )
-
-    if test "x$ca" != "xno"; then
-      CURL_CA_BUNDLE='"'$ca'"'
-      AC_SUBST(CURL_CA_BUNDLE)
-    fi
-    AC_MSG_RESULT([$ca])
-fi dnl only done if some kind of SSL was enabled
 
 AM_CONDITIONAL(CABUNDLE, test x$ca != xno)
 

docs/SSLCERTS

@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
                       Peer SSL Certificate Verification
                       =================================
 
-libcurl performs peer SSL certificate verification by default. This is done by
+libcurl performs peer SSL certificate verification by default.  This is done
-installing a default CA cert bundle on 'make install' (or similar), that CA
+by using CA cert bundle that the SSL library can use to make sure the peer's
-bundle package is used by default on operations against SSL servers.
+server certificate is valid.
 
 If you communicate with HTTPS or FTPS servers using certificates that are
 signed by CAs present in the bundle, you can be sure that the remote server
 really is the one it claims to be.
 
-If the remote server uses a self-signed certificate, if you don't install
+Until 7.18.0, curl bundled a severely outdated ca bundle file that was
-curl's CA cert bundle, if the server uses a certificate signed by a CA that
+installed by default. These days, the curl archives include no ca certs at
-isn't included in the bundle or if the remote host is an impostor
+all. You need to get them elsewhere. See below for example.
+
+If the remote server uses a self-signed certificate, if you don't install a CA
+cert bundle, if the server uses a certificate signed by a CA that isn't
+included in the bundle you use or if the remote host is an impostor
 impersonating your favorite site, and you want to transfer files from this
 server, do one of the following:
 
@@ -27,10 +31,8 @@ server, do one of the following:
     With the curl command line tool: --cacert [file]
 
  3. Add the CA cert for your server to the existing default CA cert bundle.
-    The default path of the CA bundle installed with the curl package is:
+    The default path of the CA bundle used can be changed by running configure
-    /usr/local/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt, which can be changed by running
+    with the --with-ca-bundle option pointing out the path of your choice.
-    configure with the --with-ca-bundle option pointing out the path of your
-    choice.
 
     To do this, you need to get the CA cert for your server in PEM format and
     then append that to your CA cert bundle.
@@ -48,8 +50,6 @@ server, do one of the following:
      o Append the 'outcert.pem' to the CA cert bundle or use it stand-alone
        as described below.
 
-     (Thanks to Frankie V for this description)
-
     If you use the 'openssl' tool, this is one way to get extract the CA cert
     for a particular server:
 
@@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ server, do one of the following:
        cert_bundle or use it stand-alone as described. Just remember that the
        security is no better than the way you obtained the certificate.
 
-     (Thanks to Doug Kaufman for this description)
-
  4. If you're using the curl command line tool, you can specify your own CA
     cert path by setting the environment variable CURL_CA_BUNDLE to the path
     of your choice.

lib/Makefile.am

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ DOCS = README.encoding README.memoryleak README.ares README.curlx	\
 
 EXTRA_DIST = Makefile.b32 Makefile.m32 Makefile.vc6 Makefile.riscos	\
  $(DSP) curllib.dsw config-win32.h config-win32ce.h config-riscos.h	\
- config-mac.h config.h.in ca-bundle.crt makefile.dj config.dos		\
+ config-mac.h config.h.in makefile.dj config.dos		\
  libcurl.framework.make libcurl.plist libcurl.rc config-amigaos.h	\
  amigaos.c amigaos.h makefile.amiga Makefile.netware nwlib.c nwos.c	\
  libcurl.imp msvcproj.head msvcproj.foot config-win32ce.h		\
@@ -111,15 +111,9 @@ $(top_builddir)/lib/ca-bundle.h: Makefile.in Makefile
 if CABUNDLE
 	echo '#define CURL_CA_BUNDLE @CURL_CA_BUNDLE@' >> $@
 else
-	echo '#undef CURL_CA_BUNDLE /* unknown */' >> $@
+	echo '#undef CURL_CA_BUNDLE /* unknown default path */' >> $@
 endif
 
-install-data-hook:
-	@if test -n "@CURL_CA_BUNDLE@"; then \
-	  $(mkinstalldirs) `dirname $(DESTDIR)@CURL_CA_BUNDLE@`; \
-	  @INSTALL_DATA@ $(srcdir)/ca-bundle.crt $(DESTDIR)@CURL_CA_BUNDLE@; \
-        fi
-
 # this hook is mainly for non-unix systems to build even if configure
 # isn't run
 dist-hook: