The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel

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We are unable to connect to an HTTPS server using WebRequest because of this error message:

The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.

We know that the server doesn’t have a valid HTTPS certificate with the path used, but to bypass this issue, we use the following code that we’ve taken from another StackOverflow post:

private void Somewhere() {
    ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(AlwaysGoodCertificate);
}

private static bool AlwaysGoodCertificate(object sender, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors policyErrors) {
   return true;
}

The problem is that server never validates the certificate and fails with the above error. Does anyone have any idea of what I should do?

I should mention that a colleague and I performed tests a few weeks ago and it was working fine with something similar to what I wrote above. The only “major difference” we’ve found is that I’m using Windows 7 and he was using Windows XP. Does that change something?

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