The request could not be completed (Send failure)

Update: see http://slodge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/ssl-problems-with-microsoft-azure.html


I've been playing with Azure Mobile Services on Mono for Android (and on MonoTouch too).

One thing that stumped me for a little while was a problem where I just couldn't talk to the server - all calls would fail with:

The request could not be completed (Send failure)

Eventually I worked out that:

1. Make sure you've got INTERNET permissions in your app Manifest
2. Make sure you are using http and not https for the service address

I'm not sure why https is not currently working - must be some SSL/certificate-level error?