Title: SSL error Last modified: October 1, 2018 --- # SSL error * [Anders Alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/) * (@alhbin) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-error-30/) * Hi, I get this error message trying to download images: * cURL Request Error:: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate. * The site is a staging site with no SSL, is this needed to be able to download? Hosted at Pressidium. * Thanks! - This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by [Anders Alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/). * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fssl-error-30%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Author [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/) * (@dcooney) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-error-30/#post-10739703) * Hi [@alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/), Can you have a look at this answer and let me know if this helps? [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-error-unable-to-download-image-to-server/#post-10677859](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curl-error-unable-to-download-image-to-server/#post-10677859) * It will mean modifying core code, but it would really help me try to contain some of these errors that I can’t reproduce. * ``` curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); ``` - This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/). * Thread Starter [Anders Alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/) * (@alhbin) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-error-30/#post-10741917) * Hello! * OK, just to make sure I did it correct, I adjusted in the file “/wp-content/plugins/ instant-images/api/upload.php” Correct place? * In such case, sorry – no difference. Same error message. Also please check below code so I did it correct. * BR // Anders * ``` // Confirm cURL is enabled if(in_array ('curl', get_loaded_extensions())) { // Generate temp image from URL and store it on server for upload $ch = curl_init(); // Lets use cURL curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // Anders added curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1); // Anders added curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $img); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1); $picture = curl_exec($ch); // cURL error if (curl_error($ch)) { $response = array( 'error' => true, 'msg' => __('cURL Request Error:', 'instant-images') .': '. curl_error($ch), 'path' => '', 'filename' => '' ); } ``` * Plugin Author [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/) * (@dcooney) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-error-30/#post-10742641) * [@alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/) I’m not seeing the `CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST` or `CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER` lines in your code sample. Looks like you added the wrong code. * Can you please try the following. * ``` // Confirm cURL is enabled if(in_array ('curl', get_loaded_extensions())) { // Generate temp image from URL and store it on server for upload $ch = curl_init(); // Lets use cURL curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $img); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1); $picture = curl_exec($ch); // cURL error if (curl_error($ch)) { $response = array( 'error' => true, 'msg' => __('cURL Request Error:', 'instant-images') .': '. curl_error($ch), 'path' => '', 'filename' => '' ); } ``` * Or copy replace the entire contents of upload.php with this gist. [https://gist.github.com/dcooney/f50f2d7e680be69887d566d3ea9551d8](https://gist.github.com/dcooney/f50f2d7e680be69887d566d3ea9551d8) * Plugin Author [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/) * (@dcooney) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-error-30/#post-10742655) * Also [@alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/), can you possibly provide some server specs so I can try to replicate? * For example, what hosting environment are you using? * Thread Starter [Anders Alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/) * (@alhbin) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-error-30/#post-10742754) * OK, so the new code is working better, sorry if I got the wrong one at first. * Then I got the permission error, but after changing permission from 341 to 755 on the uploads/instant-images folder, this was also solved! So now it works 🙂 * However a couple of questions: This code change you now gave me, will you include this in next version, or will it be overwritten, and do it cause any security problems using it? (As someone mentioned in another support thread…) * I am hosting all my and my clients sites on Pressidium, a dedicated WP hosting company. I guess I will have to do this manual permission change on all of the sites I now will use your plugin on? Is there then any risk of Pressidium changes this back again for some security reasons? * Thanks! * Thread Starter [Anders Alhbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alhbin/) * (@alhbin) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-error-30/#post-10742762) * And by the way – If you need for testing, I can setup an account for you to work with on my Staging site, and also provide you with some FTP access to the same. * Plugin Author [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/) * (@dcooney) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-error-30/#post-10742939) * I’m going to run tests on my environments to see if this affects anything, if not I’ll add it into the plugin. * > And by the way – If you need for testing, I can setup an account for you to > work with on my Staging site, and also provide you with some FTP access to > the same. * Thanks – appreciate that! If I need it I’ll reach out 🙂 Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘SSL error’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/instant-images/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2504172) * [Instant Images - One-click Image Uploads from Unsplash, Openverse, Pixabay, Pexels, and Giphy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/instant-images/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/instant-images/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/instant-images/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/instant-images/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/instant-images/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/instant-images/reviews/) ## Tags * [curl](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/curl/) * [SSL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ssl/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/) * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-error-30/#post-10742939) * Status: not resolved