Disable SSL Certificate Verification

By default, Testfully verifies SSL certificates as part of sending HTTP requests. When certificate verification fails, Testfully displays an error message to you. You can choose to disable certificate verification for your requests.

Disable SSL Certificate Verification for a request

Please follow the below steps to disable or enable SSL certificate verification for a request:

  1. Open your desired request via the API Client UI.
  2. Click on the Settings tab.
  3. Use the Certificate Verification dropdown to disable or enable SSL verification.

The table below explains what each option means.

ValueDescription
Not Set As the name suggests, you have not set a value for this settings. Use this option to inherit settings from a parent folder or environment
Verify Certificate Testfully shall verify certificate before sending the request
Do Not Verify Certificate Testfully shall NOT verify certificate before sending the request

Disable SSL Certificate Verification for an environment

Use this feature to disable or enable SSL verification for all of the requests that are sent against an environment. This becomes handy when you want to disable SSL verification for requests to your local API.

Please follow the below steps to disable or enable SSL certificate verification for an environment:

  1. Open the API Client UI
  2. Click on the Environments pane of the sidebar
  3. Select your environment of choice
  4. Click on the Settings tab
  5. Use the Certificate Verification dropdown to disable or enable SSL verification.

The table below explains what each option means.

ValueDescription
Not Set As the name suggests, you have not set a value for this setting. Use this option to inherit settings from a parent folder or environment
Verify Certificate Testfully shall verify certificate before sending the request
Do Not Verify Certificate Testfully shall NOT verify certificate before sending the request

The above settings won't be applied to requests that have a value for Certificate Verification. Use Not Set to unset the value of the Certificate Verification for a request.

Disable SSL Certificate Verification for a folder

Use this feature to disable or enable SSL verification for all of the requests that are within a folder. This feature will be released soon.

FAQ

Check this section for the most frequent issues related to SSL verification.

I've disabled Certificate Verification, yet getting the error

This error happens when Testfully's web app is being used to send requests to a local API. Unfortunately, we cannot disable this feature for localhost APIs via the web. To fix this issue, Download Testfully Desktop app.