C# Ignore certificate errors?

Question

I am getting the following error during a web service request to a remote web service:

Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. ---> System.Security.Authentication.AuthenticationException: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.

Is there anyway to ignore this error, and continue.

It seems the remote certificate is not signed.

The site I connect to is www.czebox.cz - so feel free to visit the site, and notice even browsers through security exceptions.

Thanks

Answer 1

Add a certificate validation handler. Returning true will allow ignoring the validation error:

ServicePointManager
    .ServerCertificateValidationCallback += 
    (sender, cert, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => true;

Answer 2

The reason it's failing is not because it isn't signed but because the root certificate isn't trusted by your client. Rather than switch off SSL validation, an alternative approach would be to add the root CA cert to the list of CAs your app trusts.

This is the root CA cert that your app currently doesn't trust:

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-----END CERTIFICATE-----

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