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-rw-r--r--lib/default.php3
-rw-r--r--lib/httpclient.php14
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/default.php b/lib/default.php
index ab5f294de..950c6018d 100644
--- a/lib/default.php
+++ b/lib/default.php
@@ -304,4 +304,7 @@ $default =
array('subscribers' => true,
'members' => true,
'peopletag' => true),
+ 'http' => // HTTP client settings when contacting other sites
+ array('ssl_cafile' => false // To enable SSL cert validation, point to a CA bundle (eg '/usr/lib/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt')
+ ),
);
diff --git a/lib/httpclient.php b/lib/httpclient.php
index 384626ae0..b69f718e5 100644
--- a/lib/httpclient.php
+++ b/lib/httpclient.php
@@ -132,7 +132,19 @@ class HTTPClient extends HTTP_Request2
// ought to be investigated to see if we can handle
// it gracefully in that case as well.
$this->config['protocol_version'] = '1.0';
-
+
+ // Default state of OpenSSL seems to have no trusted
+ // SSL certificate authorities, which breaks hostname
+ // verification and means we have a hard time communicating
+ // with other sites' HTTPS interfaces.
+ //
+ // Turn off verification unless we've configured a CA bundle.
+ if (common_config('http', 'ssl_cafile')) {
+ $this->config['ssl_cafile'] = common_config('http', 'ssl_cafile');
+ } else {
+ $this->config['ssl_verify_peer'] = false;
+ }
+
parent::__construct($url, $method, $config);
$this->setHeader('User-Agent', $this->userAgent());
}