Skip to main content

Disable SSL Validation

Legacy Documentation
You're viewing legacy documentation for API Fortress (deployed via an on-premises container). To view documentation for the new SaaS version of API Fortress — now known as Sauce Labs API Testing and Monitoring (with Sauce Connect tunnels) — see API Testing on the Sauce Labs Cloud.

SaaS / Cloud Customers​

If you are using the API Fortress SaaS (cloud) platform you can use the downloader named "US East No SSL Check".

This downloader ignores invalid and not matching certificates.

Self Hosted / On-Premises Customers​

To disable the SSL validation in the downloader do the following steps:

NOTE: We will assume you're using a docker-compose based deployment, if you are not please reach out to support@apifortress.com.)

  1. First access the machine that runs the downloader service (likely the one that runs the rest of API Fortress as well)
  2. Then navigate to the downloader/ directory
  3. Stop the downloader by issuing:
sudo docker-compose stop
  1. Next edit the docker-compose.yml file
  2. In the environment section, add the following entry:
disable_ssl_validation: 'true'
  1. Save and exit the file
  2. Now restart the downloader by issuing:
sudo docker-compose up -d

This downloader will now ignore invalid and not matching certificates.