Question

I need to access simultaniously multiple instances of a web services with the following Url. The web services is hosted in IIS and has SSL enabled.

https://services.mysite.com/data/data.asmx

Usually, when we do this process manually, we go one by one and update the Windows host file (c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) like this :

192.1.1.100 services.mysite.com

I would like to automate the process and do it with some multithreading. So I cannot change the Host file. Is there a way to simulate a host file when we do a HTTP request in C#?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you know the IP address of the server’s SSL endpoint (which isn’t necessarily the same as the server’s default IP address), then you could just aim you web-service at that? Obviously the SSL check will fail, but you can disable that through code…

ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += delegate
{
    return true; // you might want to check some of the certificate detials...
};