For starters, SSL3 is insecure and should not be used. Maybe that's why curl is "freaking out"?
For a full report on the server's SSL configuration, run the Qualys SSL test.
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Hi Guys,
Okay I'm in a situation and totally clueless about what to do.
I am to write apis to interact with a Server, the Server uses SSL3 and I have got a signed ssl certificate from the server providers.
Problem is when I have not been able to successfully curl any resource from the server, curl always freak out with one error or the other concerning the ssl procedure.
The only indication that the certificate is okay and the server works fine is that i can connect using openssl when i run the command below.
openssl s_client -connect 101.101.101.101:2002 -cert sslcert.pem -key privateKey.pem -ssl3 -msg
However a colleague(Java Programmer) has been able to successfully establish a connection using Java.
How can I create a connection from PHP using Laravel.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks
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