diff --git a/AssemblyInfo.cs b/AssemblyInfo.cs
index 89dae49..1dc2c6b 100644
--- a/AssemblyInfo.cs
+++ b/AssemblyInfo.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using System.Runtime.Serialization;
 
+#if !(UNITY_5_0 || UNITY_4_6 || UNITY_4_5 || UNITY_4_3 || UNITY_4_2 || UNITY_4_1 )
 // General Information about an assembly is controlled through the following 
 // set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
 // associated with an assembly.
@@ -35,3 +36,4 @@
 // [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
 [assembly: AssemblyVersion("0.0.0.0")]
 [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("0.0.0.0")]
+#endif
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/JSON.cs b/lib/JSON.cs
index ae06abd..ea9683d 100644
--- a/lib/JSON.cs
+++ b/lib/JSON.cs
@@ -241,8 +241,12 @@ protected static string ParseString (char[] json, ref int index, ref bool succes
 						if (!(success = UInt32.TryParse (new string (json, index, 4), NumberStyles.HexNumber, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out codePoint))) {
 							return "";
 						}
-						// convert the integer codepoint to a unicode char and add to string
-						s.Append (Char.ConvertFromUtf32 ((int)codePoint));
+						try{
+							// convert the integer codepoint to a unicode char and add to string
+							s.Append (Char.ConvertFromUtf32 ((int)codePoint));
+						}catch(Exception e){
+							s.Append ( "" );
+						}
 						// skip 4 chars
 						index += 4;
 					} else {
diff --git a/src/Request.cs b/src/Request.cs
index c9b358d..24d581c 100644
--- a/src/Request.cs
+++ b/src/Request.cs
@@ -24,6 +24,23 @@ public enum RequestState {
         Waiting, Reading, Done
     }
 
+	public class CertVerifier
+	{
+		public delegate bool CertVerifierCB (object sender, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors);
+
+		public static CertVerifierCB verifier = new CertVerifierCB(DefaultServerCertificateValidator);
+
+		public static bool DefaultServerCertificateValidator (object sender, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors)
+		{
+			#if !UNITY_EDITOR
+			System.Console.WriteLine( "NET: SSL Cert: " + sslPolicyErrors.ToString() );
+			#else
+			Debug.LogWarning("SSL Cert Error: " + sslPolicyErrors.ToString ());
+			#endif
+			return true;
+		}
+	}
+
     public class Request
     {
         public static bool LogAllRequests = false;
@@ -77,7 +94,7 @@ public Request( string method, string uri, WWWForm form )
             this.method = method;
             this.uri = new Uri (uri);
             this.bytes = form.data;
-            foreach ( DictionaryEntry entry in form.headers )
+            foreach ( var entry in form.headers )
             {
                 this.AddHeader( (string)entry.Key, (string)entry.Value );
             }
@@ -160,7 +177,7 @@ private void GetResponse() {
                     using (var stream = client.GetStream ()) {
                         var ostream = stream as Stream;
                         if (uri.Scheme.ToLower() == "https") {
-                            ostream = new SslStream (stream, false, new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback (ValidateServerCertificate));
+                            ostream = new SslStream (stream, false, new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback (CertVerifier.verifier));
                             try {
                                 var ssl = ostream as SslStream;
                                 ssl.AuthenticateAsClient (uri.Host);
@@ -301,16 +318,6 @@ public string Text {
             set { bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes (value); }
         }
 
-        public static bool ValidateServerCertificate (object sender, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors)
-        {
-#if !UNITY_EDITOR
-            System.Console.WriteLine( "NET: SSL Cert: " + sslPolicyErrors.ToString() );
-#else
-            Debug.LogWarning("SSL Cert Error: " + sslPolicyErrors.ToString ());
-#endif
-            return true;
-        }
-
         void WriteToStream( Stream outputStream )
         {
             var stream = new BinaryWriter( outputStream );