Allowing Untrusted SSL Certificates with HttpClient

Question

I'm struggling to get my Windows 8 application to communicate with my test web API over SSL.

It seems that HttpClient/HttpClientHandler does not provide and option to ignore untrusted certificates like WebRequest enables you to (albeit in a "hacky" way with ServerCertificateValidationCallback).

Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

With Windows 8.1, you can now trust invalid SSL certs. You have to either use the Windows.Web.HttpClient or if you want to use the System.Net.Http.HttpClient, you can use the message handler adapter I wrote: http://www.nuget.org/packages/WinRtHttpClientHandler

Docs are on the GitHub: https://github.com/onovotny/WinRtHttpClientHandler