Question

Scenario:

I’ve a WCF web service called SERVICEA hosted in Azure. It’s uses self signed certificate for HTTPS.
This SERVICEA inspect the incoming request and determines whether to call:

1. SERVICEB OR
2. SERVICEC

Both SERVICEB AND SERVICEC also uses self signed cert. for https.

PROBLEM:

When I deploy the SERVICEA and try to call so that it invokes SERVICEB I get the error message below:

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Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel
with authority “SERVICEB…”

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Note it says SERVICEB.. on error message.

Anyidea how I can resolve this issue, please?

Answer 1

You need to validate the server certificate if its self signed as shown below:

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