cURL requires CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER=FALSE

Question

I was using cURL on my localhost for the longest time and all the sudden I noticed it no longer works unless I explictly set the option, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER=

Answer 1

The value for CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER by default is TRUE as of cURL 7.10.

Hence you may need to explicitly set it to FALSE to prevent CURL from verifying the certificate.