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anjunatl
Asked: 2017-02-12 14:21:57 +0800 CST

Why does PHP Composer have CA certs in its installer file?

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The developers of Composer have a script you can execute to install Composer on your system. It contains a slew of CA certs in the file. I am new to certificate security and am wondering what this file is doing with them.

Here is the script in question: https://github.com/composer/getcomposer.org/blob/master/web/installer#L1483

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  1. Best Answer

    They are there in case the installer can't find/access the required cert(s) on the host system, according to one of the getcomposer.org contributors.

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