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Perl module that provides Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format

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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:

        This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
        License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
        file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

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