Bypass invalid SSL certificate errors when calling web services in .Net

Question

We are setting up a new SharePoint for which we don\'t have a valid SSL certificate yet. I would like to call the Lists web service on it to retrieve some meta data about th

Answer 1

Alternatively you can register a call back delegate which ignores the certification error:

...
ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = MyCertHandler;
...

static bool MyCertHandler(object sender, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors error)
{
// Ignore errors
return true;
}