Step 1 − Select Version of Python to Install Installing Python on Windows takes a series of few easy steps. To write and execute code in python, we first need to install Python on our system. $ curl -cacert mycompany.Python is a widely used high-level programming language. We can provide another certificate authority like our company local certificate authority with the -cacert option. Certificate Authority is the top certificate which is provided by Certification Authority firms. Certificate chains provide a trust relationship between hierarchical certificates where the leaf is the site certificate we want to navigate. In some cases, we may need to use another certificate chain then internet. $ curl -E wk.cert Provide a Certificate Authority Certificate Explicitly In this example, we will use a certificate named in wk.cert order to connect. If we do not want to use web site provided certificate and provide sites HTTPS certificate manually we can use -E or -cert option with the certificate file. $ curl -insecure Allow Insecure Connections Provide Site HTTPS Certificate Manually In order to prevent this error and accept an insecure certificate, we need to provide -insecure This will accept all provided certificates without complaining about it. $ curl curl SSL/TLS Problems Allow Insecure Connections As an example, we will try to access and we will get an error like curl: (51) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'AND we run following command. The error detail is printed to the terminal. Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali: $ sudo apt install curl Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali: Fedora, CentOS, RHEL: $ sudo yum install curl SSL/TLS ProblemsĮspecial in self-signed or expired X.509 or SSL/TLS certificates may create problems. We will start with the installation of the curl tool with the following command. We will examine how to solve these curl HTTPS related problems. Curl also supports HTTPS protocol which is secure version of the HTTP. Curl is a command line tool and library which implements protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP etc.

How to install curl on windows