Title: Requests_SSL::verify_certificate
Published: August 16, 2016
Last modified: November 2, 2022

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# Requests_SSL::verify_certificate( string $host, array $cert ): bool

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_ssl/verify_certificate/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_ssl/verify_certificate/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_ssl/verify_certificate/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_ssl/verify_certificate/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_ssl/verify_certificate/?output_format=md#source)

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Verify the certificate against common name and subject alternative names

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_ssl/verify_certificate/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

Unfortunately, PHP doesn’t check the certificate against the alternative names, 
leading things like ‘[https://www.github.com/](https://www.github.com/)‘ to be invalid.

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_ssl/verify_certificate/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818#section-3.1](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818#section-3.1/):
   RFC2818, Section 3.1

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_ssl/verify_certificate/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$host`stringrequired

Host name to verify against

`$cert`arrayrequired

Certificate data from openssl_x509_parse()

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_ssl/verify_certificate/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 bool

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_ssl/verify_certificate/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/requests/ssl.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/Requests/SSL.php#L31)

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