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@@ -4,9 +4,12 @@ page_keywords: API, Docker, rcli, REST, documentation
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# Docker Remote API
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- - The Remote API is replacing `rcli`.
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- By default the Docker daemon listens on `unix:///var/run/docker.sock`
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and the client must have `root` access to interact with the daemon.
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+ - If the Docker daemon is set to use an encrypted TCP socket (`--tls`,
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+ or `--tlsverify`) as with Boot2Docker 1.3.0, then you need to add extra
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+ parameters to `curl` when making test API requests:
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+ `curl --insecure --cert ~/.docker/cert.pem --key ~/.docker/key.pem https://boot2docker:2376/images/json`
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- If a group named `docker` exists on your system, docker will apply
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ownership of the socket to the group.
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- The API tends to be REST, but for some complex commands, like attach
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