Hi all,
I am trying to post a request to a web service over https. The server
has a certificate but does not require the client to have a
certificate. I am not interested in validating the server
certificate. How can I post a request to a web server using https
without validating the server certificate? It must be possible
because the open source SoapUI can do it.
Here is the c# code I am using. I copied this code from MSDN. It
works fine for http, but throws a "The remote certificate in invalid
according to the validation procedure" exception for https.
//WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://www.contoso.com/
PostAccepter.aspx"); works fine
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("https://www.webservice.com/
ProcessMessage"); //throws exception
request.Method = "POST";
string postData = "This is a test that posts this string to a Web
server.";
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
request.ContentType = "text/xml; charset=UTF-8";
request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
dataStream.Close();
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
Console.WriteLine(((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription);
dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
Console.WriteLine(responseFromServer);
reader.Close();
dataStream.Close();
response.Close();
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
