Consuming Webservice via https

[Jens Mander]

Hi and sorry for the heavy crossposting (fu2 mpdf)!

As you might have gotten out of the subject line, my application tries to
consume a webservice that's being connected to via https. This works fine
when I use a windows forms app. Trying the same from within an asp.net app
fails. As far as I can tell this is due to the lack of an installed client
certificate for the ASPNET windows user account. The certificate I use is
available as X.509 (.cer) and as PKCS #7 (.p7b). On MSDN I read an article
that tells how to install an PKCS #12 certificate (.pfx) into the machines
certificate store.

My question is now: How can I connect to the webservice using the
certificate I got?

Any answer is appreciated.

Regards!

 

[Guest]

You can use something like this:

// Load the client certificate from a file.
X509Certificate x509 = X509Certificate.CreateFromCertFile(@"c:\user.cer");

// Add the client certificate to the ClientCertificates property of the
proxy class.
webservice.ClientCertificates.Add(x509);


Regards,
Catalin

 

[Jens Mander]

My question is now: How can I connect to the webservice using the

certificate I got?

In the end it was all about accepting the server certificate by setting
System.Net.ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy to an all certificates
accepting class that implements
ICertificatePolicy...

It didn't work the first time because of proxy problems. When I tried it on
the production server, it worked fine.