Does curl have a --no-check-certificate option like wget?

Question

I am trying to make a curl request to one of our local development servers running a dev site with a self-signed SSL cert. I am using curl from the command line.

I saw some blog posts mentioning that you can add to the list of certificates or specify a specific (self signed) certificate as valid, but is there a catch-all way of saying "don't verify" the ssl cert - like the --no-check-certificate that wget has?

Answer 1

Yes. From the manpage:

-k, --insecure (SSL) This option explicitly allows curl to perform "insecure" SSL connections and transfers. All SSL connections are attempted to be made secure by using the CA certificate bundle installed by default. This makes all connections considered "insecure" fail unless -k, --insecure is used.