You need to validate the server certificate if its self signed as shown below.
You want to trap the ServerCertificateValidationCallback and make it ignore certificates of your choosing. Here is a decent article that explains how: http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2008/05/01/c-how-to-accept-an-invalid-ssl-certificate-programmatically.
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