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NAME
    Mozilla::CA - Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format

SYNOPSIS
        use IO::Socket::SSL;
        use Mozilla::CA;

my $host = "www.paypal.com";
        my $client = IO::Socket::SSL->new(
            PeerHost => "$host:443",
            SSL_verify_mode => 0x02,
            SSL_ca_file => Mozilla::CA::SSL_ca_file(),
        )
            || die "Can't connect: $@";

$client->verify_hostname($host, "http")
            || die "hostname verification failure";

DESCRIPTION
    Mozilla::CA provides a copy of Mozilla's bundle of Certificate Authority
    certificates in a form that can be consumed by modules and libraries
    based on OpenSSL.

The module provide a single function:

SSL_ca_file()
        Returns the absolute path to the Mozilla's CA cert bundle PEM file.

SEE ALSO
    http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html

LICENSE
    For the bundled Mozilla CA PEM file the following applies:

The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License
        Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
        compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
        http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/

Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
        basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
        the License for the specific language governing rights and
        limitations under the License.

The Original Code is the Netscape security libraries.

The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape
        Communications Corporation. Portions created by the Initial
        Developer are Copyright (C) 1994-2000 the Initial Developer. All
        Rights Reserved.

Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms
        of either the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the
        "GPL"), or the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or
        later (the "LGPL"), in which case the provisions of the GPL or the
        LGPL are applicable instead of those above. If you wish to allow use
        of your version of this file only under the terms of either the GPL
        or the LGPL, and not to allow others to use your version of this
        file under the terms of the MPL, indicate your decision by deleting
        the provisions above and replace them with the notice and other
        provisions required by the GPL or the LGPL. If you do not delete the
        provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file
        under the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL.

The Mozilla::CA distribution itself is available under the same license.

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