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How To: Call a Web Service Using SSL 471
15. Click Close, and then OK.
16. Expand Certificates (Local Computer) in the left pane of the MMC snap-in.
17. Expand Trusted Root Certification Authorities.
18. Right-click Certificates, point to All Tasks, and then click Import.
19. Click Next to move past the Welcome dialog box of the Certificate Import
Wizard.
20. Enter the path and filename of the CA’s .cer file.
21. Click Next.
22. Select Place all certificates in the following store, and then click Browse.
23. Select Show physical stores.
24. Expand Trusted Root Certification Authorities within the list, and then select
Local Computer.
25. Click OK, click Next, and then click Finish.
26. Click OK to close the confirmation message box.
27. Refresh the view of the Certificates folder within the MMC snap-in and confirm
that the CA’s certificate is listed.
28. Close the MMC snap-in.
5. Develop a Web Application to Call the Web Service
This procedure creates a simple ASP.NET Web application. You will use this
ASP.NET Web application as the client application to call the Web service.
To create a simple ASP.NET Web application
1. On the Web service client computer, create a new C# ASP.NET Web application
called SecureMathClient.
2. Add a Web reference (by using HTTPS) to the Web service.
a. Right-click the References node within Solution Explorer, and then click Add
Web Reference.
b. In the Add Web Reference dialog box, enter the URL of your Web service.
Make sure you use an HTTPS URL.
Note: If you have already set a Web reference to a Web service without using HTTPS,
you can manually edit the generated proxy class file and change the line of code that
sets the Url property from an HTTP URL to an HTTPS URL.
c. Click Add Reference.