From 52d715676c6c12e7246ede22adb9dcf062dbaed4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krittanan Pingclasai <kp@kpping.me>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:14:38 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] string is an acceptable type of ssl attr

---
 types/mysql/index.d.ts     | 3 ++-
 types/mysql/mysql-tests.ts | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/types/mysql/index.d.ts b/types/mysql/index.d.ts
index 7260dc2e85..7d3281218f 100644
--- a/types/mysql/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/mysql/index.d.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 // Project: https://github.com/mysqljs/mysql
 // Definitions by:  William Johnston <https://github.com/wjohnsto>
 // 	                Kacper Polak <https://github.com/kacepe>
+// 	                Krittanan Pingclasai <https://github.com/kpping>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
 // TypeScript Version: 2.1
 
@@ -422,7 +423,7 @@ export interface ConnectionConfig extends ConnectionOptions {
     /**
      * object with ssl parameters or a string containing name of ssl profile
      */
-    ssl?: tls.SecureContextOptions & { rejectUnauthorized?: boolean };
+    ssl?: string | (tls.SecureContextOptions & { rejectUnauthorized?: boolean });
 }
 
 export interface PoolConfig extends ConnectionConfig {
diff --git a/types/mysql/mysql-tests.ts b/types/mysql/mysql-tests.ts
index a708aa6163..a3ddb27248 100644
--- a/types/mysql/mysql-tests.ts
+++ b/types/mysql/mysql-tests.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ connection.query('SELECT 1', (err, rows) => {
     // connected! (unless `err` is set)
 });
 
+connection = mysql.createConnection({
+    host: 'localhost',
+    ssl: 'Amazon RDS'
+});
+
 connection = mysql.createConnection({
     host: 'localhost',
     ssl: {