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c#sslmonoxamarinxamarin.android
Florian Schaal
Florian Schaal

Reputation: 2660

Invalid certificate received from server xamarin.android

So this is driving me crazy for 1 day now. I'm trying to talk to a REST API on xamarin.android but for some reason I get this error:

InnerException  {Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.TlsException: Invalid
certificate received from server. Error code: 0xffffffff800b010a   at
Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.Handshake.Client.TlsServerCertificate.RemoteValidation
(Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.ClientContext context, AlertDescription
description) [0x00000] in :0    at
Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.Handshake.Client.TlsServerCertificate.validateCertificates
(Mono.Security.X509.X509CertificateCollection certificates) [0x00000]
in :0    at
Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.Handshake.Client.TlsServerCertificate.ProcessAsTls1
() [0x00000] in :0    at
Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.Handshake.HandshakeMessage.Process ()
[0x00000] in :0    at
Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.ClientRecordProtocol.ProcessHandshakeMessage
(Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.TlsStream handMsg) [0x00000] in :0    at
Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.RecordProtocol.InternalReceiveRecordCallback
(IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in :0
}   Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.TlsException

After some research I found that this has to do with the missing certificate from the server I'm talking to (correct me if I'm wrong). So I added the SSL certificate to keychain on my Mac. I also ran the Mozilla command for installing the default certificates.

Unfortunately this still not works. On windows the connection with the API works like a charm. From what I read this is because windows got its own CA store and some default certificates.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3081

Answers (1)

Honnes
Honnes

Reputation: 320

I'm having the same issues as you do, in my case I actually managed to figure out I had a certificatename-missmatch. Something I don't know how to solve, as it's not my server I am requesting data from.

A work-around for development I used so far is to surpress all SLL, and just accept all there is using the following code:

                ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback
                (
                    (srvPoint, certificate, chain, errors) => true
                );

or a bit shorter

ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(delegate { return true; });

However, take note that this is not THE solution to the problem, but just a work-around so you can continue developing.

I hope this helps you out, and you can get your mind of this nasty exception for now :-)

Upvotes: 4

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