Bypass SSL Certificate Validation Programmatically

In a .NET development, if you try to connect to the remote server through a web service with SSL you will probably get the following error message:

"The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust 
relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel."

inner Exception.Message is:
"The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure." 

To solve this problem, simply add a line of code which is underlined in red.
Required namespace: 
System.Net;

Code:
ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = delegate { return true; };


This code simple bypass all the certificate validation check, include invalid and expired certificates.

Sample Code:

 // callback used to validate the certificate in an SSL conversation
private static bool ValidateRemoteCertificate(
object sender,
 X509Certificate certificate,
 X509Chain chain,
 SslPolicyErrors policyErrors
)
{
 if (Convert.ToBoolean(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["IgnoreSslErrors"]))
 {
  // allow any old dodgy certificate...
  return true;
 }
 else
 {
  return policyErrors == SslPolicyErrors.None;
 }
}

private static string MakeRequest(string uri, string method, WebProxy proxy)
{
 HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
 webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
 webRequest.Method = method;

 // allows for validation of SSL conversations
 ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(
  ValidateRemoteCertificate
 );

 if (proxy != null)
 {
  webRequest.Proxy = proxy;
 }

 HttpWebResponse response = null;
 try
 {
  response = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();

  using (Stream s = response.GetResponseStream())
  {
   using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(s))
   {
    return sr.ReadToEnd();
   }
  }
 }
 finally
 {
  if (response != null)
   response.Close();
 }
}

Reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.servicepointmanager.servercertificatevalidationcallback.aspx