From 041ea93b2c8f3329462c0fd07624092d8fee53f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giulio Eulisse <10544+ktf@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 11:52:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] CCDB API: handle gracefully missing X509_CERT_DIR

---
 CCDB/src/CcdbApi.cxx | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CCDB/src/CcdbApi.cxx b/CCDB/src/CcdbApi.cxx
index bb36fbd9409c7..3b62ea7b4dd01 100644
--- a/CCDB/src/CcdbApi.cxx
+++ b/CCDB/src/CcdbApi.cxx
@@ -354,8 +354,11 @@ void CcdbApi::curlSetSSLOptions(CURL* curl_handle)
 
   TJAlienCredentialsObject cmo = mJAlienCredentials->get(cmk);
 
-  string CAPath = getenv("X509_CERT_DIR");
-  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_CAPATH, CAPath.c_str());
+  char const* CAPath = getenv("X509_CERT_DIR");
+  if (!CAPath) {
+    throw std::runtime_error("Please, make sure X509_CERT_DIR is corrctly set");
+  }
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_CAPATH, CAPath);
   curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_CAINFO, nullptr);
   curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, cmo.certpath.c_str());
   curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSLKEY, cmo.keypath.c_str());