What is the nature and description of the request? Curl does not support sha2 certificates Why does the customer need this? "Our business justification is that we are securing our environments by adding SSL to all of our web servers. We do this using SHA2 based certificates. And now curl doesn't work. So this is preventing us from securing our web servers as we have to have curl work." How would the customer like to achieve this? A single line patch that would enable sha2 certificate support. (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100976&aid=2825989&group_id=976) Specify how Red Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented. backport the patch. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla? Yes, it's fixed in upstream. How quickly does this need resolved? RHEL5.8 Does this request meet the RHEL Inclusion criteria Yes List the affected packages Curl Would the customer be able to assist in testing this functionality if implemented? Customer already tested the upstream version and it's working fine.
upstream commits: https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/b347a7a https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/9b5c00a