title: How do I upload a certificate to Azure API Management and verify it in your API
body: <p>I want to make my API use a certificate so that API management can talk to the API but no one else can surf directly to the API</p>
  
  <p>I have uploaded a certificate to API Management (APIM) but after that I don't know what to do and the "help" available in blogs is pretty poor.</p>
  
  <p>I have uploaded a self signed certificate to:</p>
  
  <p>Azure | API Management service | Publisher Portal | Security</p>
  
  <p>I have code in the API Controller that interrogates any certificates in the Request but I don't know how the Certificate gets from APIM to the API</p>
  
  <p>What do I do with the uploaded certificate?
  I am going down the right path?</p>