Importing an SSL cert under the iPhone SDK

Question

My app connects to the Schwab OFX server using NSURLConnection. Unfortunately the server uses a very recent intermediate certificate that is trusted on the Mac

Answer 1

You can bypass ssl settings using CoreFoundation's CFStream object. You'll need to do something like create a stream that connects to the appropriate port on the OFX server, then use CF(Read|Write)StreamSetProperty to provide a CFDictionary (which you can cast an NSDictionary to) with keys like kCFStreamSSLLevel, kCFStreamSSLAllowsAnyRoot, kCFStreamSSLValidatesCertificateChain, etc.