How can I establish a secure channel for SSL/TLS from a handheld device?

Question

I am trying to call a REST method from a handheld device (Windows CE / Compact framework) with this code:

public static HttpWebRequest SendHTTPRequestNoCrede         


        

Answer 1

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In a nutshell certificate management and security is not implemented well in CE and you will need to create your own web request object from Microsofts object. More details can be found at this link http://labs.rebex.net/HTTPS

Answer 2

The .NET Compact Framework does not have ServerCertificateValidationCallback.
What you could do is to set a CertificatePolicy class to validate the certificate.

public class TrustAllCertificatePolicy : ICertificatePolicy
{
  public TrustAllCertificatePolicy()
  {
  }

  public bool CheckValidationResult(ServicePoint sp, X509Certificate cert, WebRequest req, int problem)
  {
    return true;
  }
}

...

System.Net.ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy = new TrustAllCertificatePolicy();

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