SoapHttpClientProtocol disable ssl certificate validation

Question

I need to tell my C# soap web service consumer to not validate the certificate and just accept it. Is this possible?

Why: we publish a https-only web service. A client needs to consume it but has some kind of firewall/proxy (WebSense?) which does something to the certificate to make it fail validation. At this point I don't even know the details of what it does, but the customer appears to be ok with forfeiting the benefits of SSL, so I'm looking for a workaround.

Answer 1

http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2008/05/01/c-how-to-accept-an-invalid-ssl-certificate-programmatically uses ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback to disable the certificate validation.

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