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Flo
Flo

Reputation: 729

Accepting invalid SSL certificates using WinRT

There are scenarios where you want your application to accept invalid SSL certificates (testing environment/ self signed certificates etc).

In the .NET world one would use the ServerCertificateValidationCallback class to do so. Unfortunately the class doesn't exist in a WinRT context.

I need to consume a Web API using WinRT which is hosted on a server without a valid ssl certificate.

How do you accept invalid ssl certificates in WinRT using the HttpClient class or any other appropriate class.

Any help or alternatives would much appreciated.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 3754

Answers (2)

dschüsä
dschüsä

Reputation: 667

The following code worked for me for the debugging scenario:

var filter = new HttpBaseProtocolFilter();
#if DEBUG
    filter.IgnorableServerCertificateErrors.Add(ChainValidationResult.Expired);
    filter.IgnorableServerCertificateErrors.Add(ChainValidationResult.Untrusted);
    filter.IgnorableServerCertificateErrors.Add(ChainValidationResult.InvalidName);
#endif
using (var httpClient = new HttpClient(filter)) {
    ...
}

Upvotes: 4

dethSwatch
dethSwatch

Reputation: 1192

in silverlight, it wasn't allowed. I haven't seen anything that says it's allowed in winrt.

Upvotes: -1

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