HttpWebRequest and Ignoring SSL Certificate Errors

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 12 Apr 2007 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Man I can't believe this. I'm still mucking around with OFX servers and it drives me absolutely crazy how some these servers are just so unbelievably misconfigured. I've recently hit three different 3 major brokerages which fail HTTP validation with bad or corrupt certificates at least according to the .NET WebRequest class. What's somewhat odd here though is that WinInet seems to find no issue with these servers - it's only .NET's Http client that's ultra finicky. So the question then becomes how...

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