Is it possible to force the WCF test client to accept a self-signed certificate?
- by Lawrence Johnston
I have a WCF web service running in IIS 7 using a self-signed certificate (it's a proof of concept to make sure this is the route I want to go). It's required to use SSL.
Is it possible to use the WCF Test Client to debug this service without needing a non-self-signed certificate?
When I try I get this error:
Error: Cannot obtain Metadata from
https:///Service1.svc
If this is a Windows (R) Communication
Foundation service to which you have
access, please check that you have
enabled metadata publishing at the
specified address. For help enabling
metadata publishing, please refer to
the MSDN documentation at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65455.WS-Metadata
Exchange Error URI:
https:///Service1.svc
Metadata contains a reference that
cannot be resolved:
'https:///Service1.svc'.
Could not establish trust relationship
for the SSL/TLS secure channel with
authority ''. The
underlying connection was closed:
Could not establish trust relationship
for the SSL/TLS secure channel. The
remote certificate is invalid
according to the validation
procedure.HTTP GET Error URI:
https:///Service1.svc
There was an error downloading
'https:///Service1.svc'.
The underlying connection was closed:
Could not establish trust relationship
for the SSL/TLS secure channel. The
remote certificate is invalid
according to the validation procedure.
