How to make a WCF Service work with https?

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I am trying to enable https in my WCF service. I've added the SSL certificate to my localhost and I am able to view the WSDL when I use https in the browser. And the WCF service works fine with http without the SSL configuration in the web.config. But as soon as I change it to use https, I get the following error. If anybody can point me to the solution for this issue, it will be helpful as there isn't much reference for this error.

at Microsoft.Http.HttpStageProcessingAsyncResult.Complete(HttpStage stage, Exception e)
at Microsoft.Http.HttpStageProcessingAsyncResult.NextRequest(HttpStageProcessingAsyncResult self)
at Microsoft.Http.HttpStageProcessingAsyncResult..ctor(HttpStageProcessingAsyncState state, AsyncCallback callback, Object user)
at Microsoft.Http.HttpClient.Send(HttpRequestMessage request)
at Microsoft.Http.HttpClient.Send(HttpMethod method, Uri uri, RequestHeaders headers, HttpContent content)
at Microsoft.Http.HttpClient.Send(HttpMethod method, Uri uri)
at Microsoft.Http.HttpMethodExtensions.Method(HttpClient client, HttpMethod method, Uri uri)
at Microsoft.Http.HttpMethodExtensions.Method(HttpClient client, HttpMethod method, String uri)
at Microsoft.Http.HttpMethodExtensions.Get(HttpClient client, String uri)
at MobileScreening.Client.CommonTests.LoginPost(HttpClient client, String username, String password) in c:\TFS Projects\MobileScreening\MobileScreening.Client\CommonTests.cs:line 118

My client code where I am making the request to the service

static string LoginPost(HttpClient client, string username, string password)
    {
        string key = string.Empty;

        try
        {
            var user = new UserCredentials
            {
                Email = username,
                Password = password
            };

            Console.WriteLine("User Authentication:");

            HttpContent content = HttpContentExtensions.CreateJsonDataContract(user);

            using (HttpResponseMessage response = client.Post("AuthenticationService.svc/", content))
            {
                Console.WriteLine(response.Content.ReadAsString());
                Console.WriteLine(response.Headers.ToString());

                key = response.Headers["MobileScreening"] ?? string.Empty;
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            var stack = ex.StackTrace;
            var innerException = ex.InnerException;
            var message = ex.Message;
        }

        return key;
    }

My interface with the operation contract

public interface IAuthenticationService
{
    [OperationContract]
    [WebInvoke(Method = "POST", UriTemplate = "", RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
    AuthenticationWrapper Authenticate(UserCredentials user);
}

My Service to authenticate users:

public class AuthenticationService : IAuthenticationService
{
    public AuthenticationWrapper Authenticate(UserCredentials user)
    {
        string email = user.Email ?? string.Empty;
        string password = user.Password ?? string.Empty;

        var authentication = new Authentication();

        var authenticationWrapper = new AuthenticationWrapper();

        if (!authentication.AuthenticateUser(email, password))
        {
            const string description = "Authentication failed. Username and/or password is incorrect.";

            BLL.Authentication.ThrowAuthorisationFailed(description, email);

            WebOperationContext ctx = WebOperationContext.Current;
            ctx.OutgoingResponse.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized;

            authenticationWrapper.Code = (short)HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized;
            authenticationWrapper.Status = HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized.ToString();
            authenticationWrapper.Message = description;
            return authenticationWrapper;
        }
        else
        {
            const string description = "Authentication: Authenticate User";

            LogHandler.LogMessage(email, description, Common.Event.LoginSuccessful);

            string authorisationKey = authentication.CreateAuthorisationKey(email);

            WebOperationContext ctx = WebOperationContext.Current;
            ctx.OutgoingResponse.Headers.Add(Common.AuthorisationHeader, authorisationKey);
            ctx.OutgoingResponse.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK;

            authenticationWrapper.Code = (short)HttpStatusCode.OK;
            authenticationWrapper.Status = HttpStatusCode.OK.ToString();
            authenticationWrapper.Message = description;
            return authenticationWrapper;
        }
    }
}

Finally my web.config configuration for the service

How to make a WCF Service work with https?

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