From c950cda072ada8bb2576eb3d4f264f0af94b9d43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Walter <mist3rwalter@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 15:20:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Disable SSL check when downloading mods

Following Horcrux's previous workaround described in https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/issues/2142, disable SSL certificate verification when downloading mods.

PLEASE USE THIS WITH EXTREME CAUTION - SSL CHECKS PROTECT YOUR COMPUTER
---
 Core/Net/Net.cs | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Core/Net/Net.cs b/Core/Net/Net.cs
index ad875b118b..329d7fdd18 100644
--- a/Core/Net/Net.cs
+++ b/Core/Net/Net.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Net;
+using System.Net.Security;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using ChinhDo.Transactions;
@@ -50,6 +51,22 @@ public static string Download(string url, string filename = null, IUser user = n
 
             var agent = MakeDefaultHttpClient();
 
+            // WARNING: this disables all SSL checks. DANGER!!!
+            // from https://stackoverflow.com/a/1301221
+            try
+            {
+                //Change SSL checks so that all checks pass
+                ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback =
+                   new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(
+                        delegate
+                        { return true; }
+                    );
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex)
+            {
+                //ActivityLog.InsertSyncActivity(ex);
+            }
+
             try
             {
                 agent.DownloadFile(url, filename);