Colon in URL string

Thinker works great for cloning a DB from localhost to a remote host. However, I had the need to switch to a different PaaS (Compose) and their connection string starts with an x followed by a colon

x:YXYZ.....

that makes thinker think after the color follows the port number.

Can you think of any solution to that?

I'm not familiar with how compose works.

At the risk of asking a dumb question...Why does it start with an x:?

I don't see any mention of the x: in their connection docs...

https://help.compose.io/docs/connecting-to-rethinkdb

At the risk of asking a dumb question...Why does it start with an x:?

To be honest I have no idea. The connection string they provide for the deployment in the account console starts with x: . I have opened a ticket at their support since I can't connect to the deployment from NodeJS server either.

I will post here if I get back from them.

Well, that's is a weird documentation in the Compose deployment overview, however, they say that x: can be ignored.

Connections to Compose require SSL that's why I couldn't connect using Thinker. In the RethinkDB connection configuration there must be the public SSL key such as "ssl": { "ca": "cert" }

BTW, the public SSL key can be transformed to a string

So we just need a command line option for it?

like thinker clone --cert "something-goes-here"

or perhaps thinker clone --cert someFileName

That would be great. I think in the context of thinker thinker clone --cert someFileName would be the right way to go.

This would be very useful 👍