Is it possible to use curl - for client PKI realm authentication? I know that we can fulfill file realm authentication by using curl -u username:password ... . But how to present client x509 certificate for PKI realm authentication with curl?

Use curl for PKI realm authentication

TimV (Tim Vernum) January 31, 2019, 2:16am 8

Can you point to the docs that say that?
It's certainly not true, if it were true then every http connection would need a client certificate.

You should explicitly enable TLS client authentication. I would recommend that you set it to optional.

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