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

I was having same error using DownloadString; and was able to make it works as below with suggestions on this page

System.Net.WebClient client = new System.Net.WebClient();            
ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = delegate { return true; };
string sHttpResonse = client.DownloadString(sUrl);