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DownloadSSLCertificate - Download an SSL certificate

Call the DownloadSSLCertificate API to download the SSL CA certificate for an instance.

Debugging

API Explorer

You can initiate calls online through API Explorer without paying attention to the signature generation process and quickly obtain the call results.

Request parameters

This section describes only the request parameters specific to this API and some common parameters. For more information, refer to Common parameters.

Action stringrequired Example value: DownloadSSLCertificate

The operation to perform. Value: DownloadSSLCertificate.

Version stringrequired Example value: 2022-01-01

The API version is 2022-01-01.

InstanceId stringrequired Example value: mssql-6474c9******

Instance ID.

tip

You can call the DescribeDBInstances operation to query the instance ID.

Response parameters

This section describes only the response parameters specific to this API. For more information, refer to Return structure.

Certificate integer[] Example value: mssql-123abc***.zip.

The byte stream of the ZIP archive of the instance's SSL CA certificate.

Request example

Response example

Error code

The following table lists the business logic-related error codes for this API. For public error codes, see the Public error codes document.

Status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	InvalidParameter	The specified parameter %s is not valid.	The value of Parameter {parameter1} is invalid.
404	InstanceNotFound	The specified instance does not exist.	Instance not found.

Last updated: 2026.10.15 16:06:23