Power Shell Web Scraping SSL/TSL Issue

Question

I am wanting to run a web scraping script on a server.

The current script collects the html on the specified page.

$url = \"http://websms\"
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Answer 1

Use this brilliant answer:

public bool AcceptAllCertifications(object sender, System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate certification, System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Chain chain, System.Net.Security.SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors)
{
    return true;
}
ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = new System.Net.Security.RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(AcceptAllCertifications);

Answer 2

This one liner will ignore SSL certificate errors:

[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::ServerCertificateValidationCallback = {$true}

Errors regarding self-signed untrusted certificates, mismatching names or expiration will be ignored after this is executed.