Calling a WCF Web Service over HTTPS (SSL)

I was recently trying to access a web service that I wanted to secure over HTTPS. I got it working as an HTTP service, as you do, and made sure that I had a certificate on the server and enabled the https protocol.
I was using basic Http binding and here are the changes that need to be made

          <security mode="Transport">
            <transport clientCredentialType="None" />

That now worked in the browser if I prefixed the url with https://

Next step was that I needed to call the web service where I was not able to access a web.config or an app.config.  Without the service reference being available you have to do this in code. First thing is to make sure you have a copy of the interface class accessible in the client.  It doesn't need to be the same name but it does need to specify the operation contract exactly.

    [ServiceContract]
    public interface IFormDefinition
    {
        [OperationContract]
        [FaultContract(typeof(CRMSoapFault))]
        void PublishFormMetaData(string crmEndPoint, string formId, string webResource, string token);
    }
    [DataContract]
    public class CRMSoapFault
    {
        public CRMSoapFault(string errorMsg)
        {
            this.ErrorMsg = errorMsg;
        }
        ///

        /// This property is used to pass the custom error information
        /// from service to client.
        ///

        [DataMember]
        public string ErrorMsg { get; set; }
    }

To call the web service and set the binding information through code to match this you need to add:

 BasicHttpBinding myBinding = new BasicHttpBinding();
            myBinding.Security.Mode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.Transport;
            myBinding.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.None;
            EndpointAddress myEndpoint = new EndpointAddress(endPointUrl);
            ChannelFactory myChannelFactory = new ChannelFactory(myBinding, myEndpoint);
            try
            {
                IFormDefinition wcfClient1 = myChannelFactory.CreateChannel();
                // call the web service method
                wcfClient1.PublishFormMetaData(crmEndPoint, formId, webResource, token);

            }
            catch(FaultException faultEx)
            {
             }