Bad/Invalid Certificate

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I don't know if anyone else has run into this, but if your using a webclient, or webrequest, and you goto a site with an expired/invalid SSL certificate it will error.

Example:
Visual Basic: 
Dim webreq As New Net.WebClient(), by() As Byte
by = webreq.DownloadData("https://paypal.com/i")
'Errors because the cert was issued to 'www.paypal.com'
Debug.WriteLine(System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(by))
C#: 
System.Net.WebClient webreq = new System.Net.WebClient();
byte[] by;
by=webreq.DownloadData ("https://paypal.com/i");
// Errors because the cert was issued to 'www.paypal.com'
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine (by);

Gives me a good 'System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship with remote server.'

Anyone know a work around (in vb or c#)? My connection must be secure (its not to paypal.com), I don't want to have to use a third party control for something that the net namespace can already do.

Thanks in advance.
 
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