Download a SSL Certificate from a URL in Terminal


To download an SSL certificate from a website/URL to your local computer using the openssl as follows,

See Details:

openssl s_client -connect code2care.org:443 -showcerts

Save only the Certificate:

openssl s_client -connect code2care.org:443 -showcerts 2>/dev/null | sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' > cert.pem
Download Certificate on Local System

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