MapServer using certificates as a client to WMS/WFS

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

I'm interested in accessing a WFS server from mapserver, but the WFS
server requires an SSL certificate.  I can accomplish this handily
from the browser by importing the certificate.  But does anyone have
experience doing this sort of thing with mapserver as the client?

Looking at libcurl, it seems setting the CURLOPT_SSLCERT option
is what I want.
   (see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html)

Is it likely that I will need to modify the mapserver code to support
passing such an extra curl option via the map file?  Or is there
a another good way of providing my certificate?

PS. I also notice I have a /usr/local/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt file
which seems to be certificates for root servers.  That's a different
issue, right?

Best regards,
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