Rob Garfoot's Blog

A useful little snippet when using WCF with web services that have test SSL certificates.

When you call a service in WCF it's still using the underlying .NET classes in System.Net so it's actually here that you need to tell to ignore the invalid SSL certificate.

As it turns out this is very easy, all you need is the snippet below and it's good. Obviously you shouldn't deploy to a live environment with this code since it essentially says all certificates are valid but it's a handy trick to get a service working with any SSL certificate for testing.

ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = (sender, certificate, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => { return true; };