Curl With Certificates As Strings

Hello! Can Curl be configured to use SSL certificates in strings, rather than in files? I am storing my user's certificates in a mySQL database, and I don't really want to write those certificates to a file, and then use the file, and then delete them when I'm done. I would much rather just pass the certificate to Curl as a string instead. For example, instead of: curl_setopt($Curl, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, "/tmp/cert.pem"); I would like to do: $UserQuery = mysql_query("select * from Users where ID = 1000", $Database); $UserRow = mysql_fetch_assoc($UserQuery); curl_setopt($Curl, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, $UserRow["Certificate"]); Is that possible? If it isn't using Curl, is there some other library I could use to accomplish this? All I need to do is simple HTTPS posts and gets. Tim Gustafson MEI Technology Consulting, Inc tjg@meitech.com (516) 379-0001 Office (516) 908-4185 Fax http://www.meitech.com/