# Debugging Certificate Errors

DevFeed: [Debugging Certificate Errors](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/debugging-certificate-errors-30172.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.netmeister.org/blog/debugging-certificate-errors.html>)

Published: 2022-02-19T03:36:34Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Signs of Triviality](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signs-of-triviality.md>)

Topics: [cURL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/curl.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debugging.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>)

Tags: [curl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/curl.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

The article raises the question of why developers use `curl -k` when accessing a web service, in the context of debugging certificate errors.

## Source excerpt

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any developer accessing a web service must be in want of using 'curl -k'. But why?