How to stop certificate errors temporarily with WCF services

Question

I am testing an early release of a WCF web service I have created. On the client side when I use VS to \'add service reference\' that all works.

But when I try to us

Answer 1

Modifying web.config worked for me

I did it using Steve Ellinger's answer and some googling. Essentially, I had to:

• tell manager of HTTP connections to use certificate without matching certificate name with server host name, and without checking whether the certificate has been revoked
• modify endpoint behavior on client side in order to turn off certificate validation

Here are the web.config snippets...