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Asked: 2026-06-18T19:22:59+00:00

I need to ignore an SSL certificate error to do some UAT testing internally

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I need to ignore an SSL certificate error to do some UAT testing internally at our company for a Silverlight application. The client calls a resource that’s using a self-signed certificate, and for a bunch of institutional reasons, simply adding that cert to the machines of those wishing to test it isn’t feasible.

In my Windows service, I can simply use: 

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

That does not appear to exist in Silverlight 5. How can I ignore the certificate errors in the Silverlight client?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can’t. Simple as that. You will need to find another solution. The user acceptance test should include scenarios that are likely to occur in real life, so I don’t see why adding a cert if you need it in the production environment is not possible. Anyway, maybe your service could be reached by non-secured basic http in your inhouse testing scenario?

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