I wanted to test my app with SSL so I created a self signed certificate on my development pc. The certificate works fine, however, I have to specifly the computer name in the url. It will not work with localhost. Does anyone know why this is and how I can fix it.

If I need to spell out the urls that use https, like https://computername/webapp/securepage.aspx. That would mean that they will not work when they are moved to a host.

I should be able to set them as https://localhost/webapp/securepage.aspx.

Any help is appreciated.

Hi

I face the same problems as you and not sure if it's possible to work with localhost in a self-signed scenario. But well it help if you know  computername of web host and spell out the urls like this?

  string urls   =  @"https://"+System.Environment.MachineName+@"/webapp/securepage.aspx";

In case anyone's still following this thread, it is possible to create a self-signed certificate with the domain name you need (e.g. localhost). I just spent half a day researching the subject, and finally found out how to use a command line tool such as MakeCert.exe to solve the problem.

I wrote a short article on my blog about this, you'll find it here: http://torlanglo.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!97592022AD12DB22!345.entry.

Hope this helps,

Tor.