Updated on 2025-11-28 GMT+08:00

Exporting a CA Certificate

Function

This API is used to export the CA certificate.

Note: You can export a certificate only when it is in the Activated or Expired state.

Debugging

You can debug this API through automatic authentication in API Explorer or use the SDK sample code generated by API Explorer.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

    Action

    Access Level

    Resource Type (*: required)

    Condition Key

    Alias

    Dependencies

    pca:ca:export

    Read

    ca *

    g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>

    -

    -

    -

    g:EnterpriseProjectId

URI

POST /v1/private-certificate-authorities/{ca_id}/export

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

ca_id

Yes

String

ID of the CA certificate you want to export.

Minimum: 36

Maximum: 36

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

User token. For details, see [Obtaining a User Token] (https://support.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/api-iam/iam_30_0001.html).

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 3 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

certificate

String

Certificate content

NOTE:
  • If you use this API, newline characters in the exported certificate have been replaced by \r\n.

  • If you export the certificate through the console, the exported certificate is in PEM format.

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4096

certificate_chain

String

The content of the certificate chain. The sequence of the certificate chain (from top to bottom) is as follows: intermediate certificate >... > root certificate.

NOTE:
  • If you use this API, newline characters in the exported certificate chain have been replaced by \r\n.

  • If you export the certificate chain through the console, the exported certificate chain is in PEM format.

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 2097152

Status code: 400

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code

Minimum: 3

Maximum: 36

error_msg

String

Error message

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 1024

Status code: 401

Table 5 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code

Minimum: 3

Maximum: 36

error_msg

String

Error message

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 1024

Status code: 403

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code

Minimum: 3

Maximum: 36

error_msg

String

Error message

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 1024

Status code: 404

Table 7 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code

Minimum: 3

Maximum: 36

error_msg

String

Error message

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 1024

Status code: 500

Table 8 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code

Minimum: 3

Maximum: 36

error_msg

String

Error message

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 1024

Example Requests

When you call this API, a token with the permission to use this API is mandatory for the X-Auth-Token field.

POST https://ccm.cn-north-4.myhuaweicloud.com/v1/private-certificate-authorities/4c0e772e-a30c-4029-b929-b7acb04143f7/export

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Request succeeded.

{
  "certificate" : "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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\r\ntBjeKGRphA4LKir3wsbdXRYbBe7POZo=\r\n-----END CERTIFICATE-----",
  "certificate_chain" : "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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\r\nZ86vYp/N2dbauF7uUUaX5RbtFANYFU0=\r\n-----END CERTIFICATE-----"
}

Status code: 400

Invalid request parameters.

{
  "error_code" : "PCA.XXX",
  "error_msg" : "XXX"
}

Status code: 401

Token required for the requested page.

{
  "error_code" : "PCA.XXX",
  "error_msg" : "XXX"
}

Status code: 403

Authentication failed.

{
  "error_code" : "PCA.XXX",
  "error_msg" : "XXX"
}

Status code: 404

No resources available or found.

{
  "error_code" : "PCA.XXX",
  "error_msg" : "XXX"
}

Status code: 500

Internal service error.

{
  "error_code" : "PCA.XXX",
  "error_msg" : "XXX"
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Request succeeded.

400

Invalid request parameters.

401

Token required for the requested page.

403

Authentication failed.

404

No resources available or found.

500

Internal service error.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.