Ignore bad certificate - .NET CORE

Question

I\'m writing a .NET Core app to poll a remote server and transfer data as it appears. This is working perfectly in PHP because the PHP is ignoring the certificate (which is

Answer 1

//at startup configure services add the following code

services.AddHttpClient(settings.HttpClientName, client => {
// code to configure headers etc..
}).ConfigurePrimaryHttpMessageHandler(() => {
                  var handler = new HttpClientHandler();
                  if (hostingEnvironment.IsDevelopment())
                  {
                      handler.ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback = (message, cert, chain, errors) => { return true; };
                  }
                  return handler;
              });

now you can use IHttpClientFactory CreateClient method within your service