Getting around an invalid remote certificate

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Getting around an invalid remote certificate

Jun 18th, 2008

Hi,

I have a small website that I'm using to test some things involving accessing an XML file for data. It works just fine in Visual Studio's debugging environment, but when I put it on a prototype server (which has a certificate that is past it's expiration date). I get an authentication exception: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.

I have no problem actually accessing the page, because I have the option to ignore the fact that the certificate is invalid, but when the application tries to access the XML file I have in the same directory, I get this exception. I've seen all kinds of tricks on the internet that are supposed to work around this but none of them seem to work.

any suggestions?

BTW, I'm using ASP.NET 3.5