Using Digital Ocean’s API, I’ve created database cluster ‘B’ from the restore point of database ‘A’, but have not been able to connect due to a self-signed certificate error.
I have pulled the certificate from the endpoint: https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/databases/{database B id}/ca
If I manually download the certificate from the dashboard, everything works, btw.
The endpoint appears to be returning the wrong certificate, because when I pull the certificate from database A, they are the same.
Comparing certificates downloaded from the dashboard confirms that they are different.
Is this the expected behaviour? How do I get the correct certificate for database B?
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Hi @ShuStudios
CA file you are getting from API is encoded. You will have to decode the file from Base64 format after removing quotes and brackets. You can decode the file by terminal or by online conversion.
Example :-
base64 -D ~/Downloads/ca-api > ~/Downloads/ca-cert
You can also decode the file from below website :
I hope this helps.
Regards, Anadi
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