One of our clients integrates with a financial services company which provides an API to access data. Obviously this needs to be secure. Their QA environment is secured via SSL but is exposed only by IP address. A .NET client will by default throw a security exception when you try to create a SSL connection by IP because the certificate has been issued to a name. This code will get you past that…

ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += ((sender, certificate, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => true);