Adafruit feather esp32 V2 to Emoncms.org - Connection refused!

I am using an Adafruit feather esp32 v2 board and developing in Arduino.

Have been, for a good few months, able to post data to Emoncms.org using GET input/bulk as below.

void publishMessage_emonCMS() {

  //HTTP post to emonCMS
  WiFiClientSecure* client2 = new WiFiClientSecure;
  client2->setInsecure();
  if (client2) {
    client2->setCACert(rootCACertificate);
    {
      digitalWrite(led, HIGH);  // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
      HTTPClient https;
      String HTTPurl = "https://emoncms.org/input/bulk?data=[[0,10015,{\"wifirssi\":" + String(WiFi.RSSI()) + ",\"Co2\":0,\"temperature\":" + String(temp.temperature) + ",\"humidity\":" + String(humidity.relative_humidity) + "}]]&apikey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
      
      Serial.print("[HTTPS] begin....\n");
      if (https.begin(*client2, HTTPurl)) {  // HTTPS
        Serial.print("[HTTPS] GET..  emonCMS.." + String(HTTPurl)); //.substring(0,115)
        // start connection and send HTTP header
        httpCode = https.GET();
        // httpCode will be negative on error
        if (httpCode > 0) {
          // HTTP header has been sent and Server response header has been handled
          Serial.printf("[HTTPS] GET... code: %d\n", httpCode);
          // file found at server
          if (httpCode == HTTP_CODE_OK || httpCode == HTTP_CODE_MOVED_PERMANENTLY) {
            String payload = https.getString();
            Serial.println(payload);
          }
        } else {
          Serial.printf("[HTTPS] GET... failed, error what?: %s\n", https.errorToString(httpCode).c_str());
        }
        https.end();
      } else {
        Serial.printf("[HTTPS] Unable to connect\n");
      }
      // End extra scoping block
    }
    delete client2;
  } else {
    Serial.println("Unable to create client");
  }
}

This is suddenly stopped working with an http response of “-1” “Connection refused.”

When I copy out the resultant url from the Arduino Serial Monitor which I have printed out for debug e.g.

"https://emoncms.org/input/bulk?data=[[0,10015,{"wifirssi":-44,"Co2":0,"temperature":21.39,"humidity":60.97,"ts1":20.33,"ts2":20.35,"ts3":20.35}]]&apikey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

…then past it into a web browser is works fine and I can see the data in my account on the correct node on Emoncms.org!

At first I though it maybe due to SSL certificate on Emoncms.org being updated but I have tested with the new one and I also have devices which are still connected and running with the old certificate.

Any ideas or thoughts welcome, Thanks

Yes my first thought was correct! it was the certificate I had not used the root!

Below is the formatted root certificate for emoncms.org which runs to 2038.

const char* rootCACertificate = \
"-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\n" \
"MIIF3jCCA8agAwIBAgIQAf1tMPyjylGoG7xkDjUDLTANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQwFADCB\n" \
"iDELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxEzARBgNVBAgTCk5ldyBKZXJzZXkxFDASBgNVBAcTC0pl\n" \
"cnNleSBDaXR5MR4wHAYDVQQKExVUaGUgVVNFUlRSVVNUIE5ldHdvcmsxLjAsBgNV\n" \
"BAMTJVVTRVJUcnVzdCBSU0EgQ2VydGlmaWNhdGlvbiBBdXRob3JpdHkwHhcNMTAw\n" \
"MjAxMDAwMDAwWhcNMzgwMTE4MjM1OTU5WjCBiDELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxEzARBgNV\n" \
"BAgTCk5ldyBKZXJzZXkxFDASBgNVBAcTC0plcnNleSBDaXR5MR4wHAYDVQQKExVU\n" \
"aGUgVVNFUlRSVVNUIE5ldHdvcmsxLjAsBgNVBAMTJVVTRVJUcnVzdCBSU0EgQ2Vy\n" \
"dGlmaWNhdGlvbiBBdXRob3JpdHkwggIiMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4ICDwAwggIK\n" \
"AoICAQCAEmUXNg7D2wiz0KxXDXbtzSfTTK1Qg2HiqiBNCS1kCdzOiZ/MPans9s/B\n" \
"3PHTsdZ7NygRK0faOca8Ohm0X6a9fZ2jY0K2dvKpOyuR+OJv0OwWIJAJPuLodMkY\n" \
"tJHUYmTbf6MG8YgYapAiPLz+E/CHFHv25B+O1ORRxhFnRghRy4YUVD+8M/5+bJz/\n" \
"Fp0YvVGONaanZshyZ9shZrHUm3gDwFA66Mzw3LyeTP6vBZY1H1dat//O+T23LLb2\n" \
"VN3I5xI6Ta5MirdcmrS3ID3KfyI0rn47aGYBROcBTkZTmzNg95S+UzeQc0PzMsNT\n" \
"79uq/nROacdrjGCT3sTHDN/hMq7MkztReJVni+49Vv4M0GkPGw/zJSZrM233bkf6\n" \
"c0Plfg6lZrEpfDKEY1WJxA3Bk1QwGROs0303p+tdOmw1XNtB1xLaqUkL39iAigmT\n" \
"Yo61Zs8liM2EuLE/pDkP2QKe6xJMlXzzawWpXhaDzLhn4ugTncxbgtNMs+1b/97l\n" \
"c6wjOy0AvzVVdAlJ2ElYGn+SNuZRkg7zJn0cTRe8yexDJtC/QV9AqURE9JnnV4ee\n" \
"UB9XVKg+/XRjL7FQZQnmWEIuQxpMtPAlR1n6BB6T1CZGSlCBst6+eLf8ZxXhyVeE\n" \
"Hg9j1uliutZfVS7qXMYoCAQlObgOK6nyTJccBz8NUvXt7y+CDwIDAQABo0IwQDAd\n" \
"BgNVHQ4EFgQUU3m/WqorSs9UgOHYm8Cd8rIDZsswDgYDVR0PAQH/BAQDAgEGMA8G\n" \
"A1UdEwEB/wQFMAMBAf8wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEMBQADggIBAFzUfA3P9wF9QZllDHPF\n" \
"Up/L+M+ZBn8b2kMVn54CVVeWFPFSPCeHlCjtHzoBN6J2/FNQwISbxmtOuowhT6KO\n" \
"VWKR82kV2LyI48SqC/3vqOlLVSoGIG1VeCkZ7l8wXEskEVX/JJpuXior7gtNn3/3\n" \
"ATiUFJVDBwn7YKnuHKsSjKCaXqeYalltiz8I+8jRRa8YFWSQEg9zKC7F4iRO/Fjs\n" \
"8PRF/iKz6y+O0tlFYQXBl2+odnKPi4w2r78NBc5xjeambx9spnFixdjQg3IM8WcR\n" \
"iQycE0xyNN+81XHfqnHd4blsjDwSXWXavVcStkNr/+XeTWYRUc+ZruwXtuhxkYze\n" \
"Sf7dNXGiFSeUHM9h4ya7b6NnJSFd5t0dCy5oGzuCr+yDZ4XUmFF0sbmZgIn/f3gZ\n" \
"XHlKYC6SQK5MNyosycdiyA5d9zZbyuAlJQG03RoHnHcAP9Dc1ew91Pq7P8yF1m9/\n" \
"qS3fuQL39ZeatTXaw2ewh0qpKJ4jjv9cJ2vhsE/zB+4ALtRZh8tSQZXq9EfX7mRB\n" \
"VXyNWQKV3WKdwrnuWih0hKWbt5DHDAff9Yk2dDLWKMGwsAvgnEzDHNb842m1R0aB\n" \
"L6KCq9NjRHDEjf8tM7qtj3u1cIiuPhnPQCjY/MiQu12ZIvVS5ljFH4gxQ+6IHdfG\n" \
"jjxDah2nGN59PRbxYvnKkKj9\n" \
"-----END CERTIFICATE-----\n";

sorry feel free to delete if you don’t think its useful.