Access API by IP

[Artenuvielle.6025]

When sending looking up the DNS entry of api.guildwars2.com you get two entries (https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=a%3aapi.guildwars2.com&run=toolpage):

A 34.226.105.80 (https://34.226.105.80/)

A 54.85.19.255 (https://54.85.19.255/)

However when trying to access the API by either of these an unsafe SSL certificate is returned and when continuing the server returns 403 - Access denied.

 

Is there any way of accessing the API directly by IP?

[darthmaim.6017]

No. You can hardcode the IPs though, for example by adding them to /etc/hosts, using a custom DNS server or overriding the name resolution of the language/framework/... you are using.

 

There is no guarantee that these IPs remain the same in the future though, so hardcoding the IPs is not adviced.

[Nokomis.5076]

> @"Artenuvielle.6025" said:

> However when trying to access the API by either of these an unsafe SSL certificate is returned and when continuing the server returns 403 - Access denied.

They are only "unsafe" because the IP is not the hostname which is written in the SSL certificates fields to which host the certificate belongs.