Determine which wcf endpoint is being used on the server

Question

I have a wcf service thats exposing a service using two endpoints. One endpoint is used for web service calls while the other is using rest.

Is there a way to determine from which endpoint the server functions are being called?

Stephaniestephannie

one problem im encountering is that soap and rest handle erros differently. To report an error in rest you need to send a bad request as a response, and this causes an unhanded exception in soap. – Stephaniestephannie

Answer 1

Actually, contrary to what I thought - it's actually pretty easy to find out what endpoint the service was called on. In your service method, add these lines of code:

OperationContext oc = OperationContext.Current;

if(oc != null)
{
    string wasCalledOn = oc.EndpointDispatcher.EndpointAddress.Uri.ToString();
}

But as I said : I would use this very wisely and "defensively" - don't start changing service behavior based on what endpoint your method was called on - that would be very bad design!

I tried this with several SOAP endpoints - not 100% sure how REST will be handled (but most likely the same or very similarly) - try it out!

But for logging, this should work just fine!

Tapioca

Instead of .ToString() I've been using .Segments.Last(). – Shotten

Answer 2

Lifted from the blog entry here:

You just need to look at the LocalAddress on the Channel of the current Operation Context in the method:

OperationContext.Current.Channel.LocalAddress

Killerdiller