Ignore bad certificate - .NET CORE

Question

I\'m writing a .NET Core app to poll a remote server and transfer data as it appears. This is working perfectly in PHP because the PHP is ignoring the certificate (which is

Answer 1

Just to add another variation, you could add in your thumbprint and check it in the callback to make things a bit more secure such as:

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(adminConfiguration.DevIdentityServerCertThumbprint))
{
   options.BackchannelHttpHandler = new HttpClientHandler
   {
      ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback = (sender, certificate, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => certificate.Thumbprint.Equals(adminConfiguration.DevIdentityServerCertThumbprint, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)
   };
}

adminConfiguration.DevIdentityServerCertThumbprint is the configuration that you would set with your self signed cert's thumbrint.