Published June 12, 2018 by

Powershell Invoke-WebRequest ignore certificate warning

If you are using Invoke-WebRequest to download from an unsecured site you will get the following error

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

to ignore this error add below code to your script(This is a sample code please use the example listed below)

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
if (-not ([System.Management.Automation.PSTypeName]'ServerCertificateValidationCallback').Type)
{
$certCallback = @"
    using System;
    using System.Net;
    using System.Net.Security;
    using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
    public class ServerCertificateValidationCallback
    {
        public static void Ignore()
        {
            if(ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback ==null)
            {
                ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += 
                    delegate
                    (
                        Object obj, 
                        X509Certificate certificate, 
                        X509Chain chain, 
                        SslPolicyErrors errors
                    )
                    {
                        return true;
                    };
            }
        }
    }
"@
    Add-Type $certCallback
 }
[ServerCertificateValidationCallback]::Ignore()

for eg: If you want to download a file from (https://172.31.16.20/test.zip), Please use the below code sample, change the $uri as per your requirements.

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
if (-not ([System.Management.Automation.PSTypeName]'ServerCertificateValidationCallback').Type)
{
$certCallback = @"
    using System;
    using System.Net;
    using System.Net.Security;
    using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
    public class ServerCertificateValidationCallback
    {
        public static void Ignore()
        {
            if(ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback ==null)
            {
                ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += 
                    delegate
                    (
                        Object obj, 
                        X509Certificate certificate, 
                        X509Chain chain, 
                        SslPolicyErrors errors
                    )
                    {
                        return true;
                    };
            }
        }
    }
"@
    Add-Type $certCallback
 }
[ServerCertificateValidationCallback]::Ignore()

    $uri='https://172.31.16.20/test.zip'

    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $uri -Method Get

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