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David_G__33241 Nimbostratus
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Sep 11, 2017unable to verify the first certificate with node.js
 I am trying to read a datagroup using node.js and am receiving the message "unable to verify the first certificate".     I have confirmed the command manually with curl and it does return the datagro...
Sep 12, 2017
Which node library are you using? I have a Node.js script using the core https module accessing the REST interface without a problem. I did have to set the rejectUnauthorized attribute to not to validate the self cert.
A section of the code looks like this:
  var http_opts = {
    host: BIGIP,
    method: verb,
    port: 443,
    rejectUnauthorized: 0,
    path: resource
  };
  var http_headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  };
  // Authentication Method
user = USER;
pass = PASS;
  if ( user && pass ) { http_opts["auth"] = user + ":" + pass; }
  else if ( token )   { http_headers["X-F5-Auth-Token"] = token; }
  // BODY?
  if ( body ) { http_headers["Content-Length"] = body.length; }
  http_opts["headers"] = http_headers;
  var content = "";
  var req = https.request(http_opts, function(res) {Recent Discussions
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