Self signed certificates in WebView

Question

Hi,

We are using Webview for navigating to a portal in our app.

Now, we have the IIS server setup with a self signed certificate. My webview fails navigation with "CErtificateisinvalid" errorcode.

I read about filters for managing http requests/response. Would that apply for all navigations that goes through webview as well ?

Alternatively, i tried to include the cert that's used in the server to my metro app. It didn't work that way.

Can someone please help on this ?

Thanks !!

Answer 1

You can install the self-signed certificate to the local machine in order to get to the IIS server. Barring that, there's no way to make this work.

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Answer 2

Thanks for all the great feedback Matt.

So for a Universal app on Windows Phone 8.1 - there is no way to get a WebView to navigate to a self-signed https site? Even when bundling the cert with the app?

(Tried and cannot get it to work)

Thanks!