unable to verify the first certificate with node.js

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) {