In WCF there are several different types of HTTP based bindings: BasicHttpBinding WsHttpBinding WebHttpBinding What are the differences among these 3? In particular what are the differences in...

I am trying to use https & http for the website. The website has .svc files which act as REST service and called from JavaScript. My Config: <system.serviceModel> <behaviors> &l...

I faced a strange behavior in one of my WCF services. This service worked fine for around 1,5 years but since a few weeks it shows some kind of "outages" (unfortunately I cannot post images cause I...

I'm writing a web service that has a lot of methods. They are all set up similar to the following: [OperationContract] [WebInvoke( BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare, RequestFormat = WebMessa...

I was following the tutorial here: http://allen-conway-dotnet.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/using-basic-authentication-in-rest.html?_sm_au_=iFVksVM0H8QrkntP, to implement User Authentication in WCF servic...

I am trying to consume a webservice in C#. Whenever i try to call the function from the web service class I am getting a "SOAP header Action was not understood".I've added web reference[not service...

I have a problem calling a webHttpBinding WCF end point using HttpClient and the BaseAddress property. HttpClient I created a HttpClient instance specifying the BaseAddress property as a local ho...

I'm new to WCF RESTFull services developpment and I'm looking for some usefull information and your experience feedback about using webHttpBinding compared to the new WCF Web API http://wcf.codeple...

I have now investigated the 400 - BadRequest code for the last two hours. A lot of sugestions goes towards ensuring the bindingConfiguration attribute is set correctly, and in my case, it is. Now,...

I have a WCF service (over a webHttpBinding) using ASP.NET 4/IIS 8 and I had no problems communicating with it using JSON with GET. However, today I needed to implement a method that sends a large ...

I am trying to expose a WCT REST service and only users with valid username and password would be able to access it. The username and password are stored in a SQL database. Here is the service co...

I have successfully configured 3 endpoints for my prototype service. The endpoints are basicHttpBinding, wsHttpBinding, and webHttpBinding. The only glitch I have at the moment is in the WCFTestCli...

I have a web page containing a filtering text box and a list box. Modifications to the text box trigger an AJAX request, which returns an array of values with which to populate the list box. I had...

I'm trying to set up a WCF service hosted in IIS that exposes an endpoint that acts as a REST service producing JSON data, and I want to use HTTPS. I want to take care of the user authentication my...

How can I set the maxItemsInObjectGraph for the DataContractJsonSerializer? I get an error saying "Maximum number of items that can be serialized or deserialized in an object graph is '65536'. Cha...

I have a bunch of wcf webhttp (rest) services that expect an auth cookie. Question is - How do I pass the formsauth ticket to the wcf service? Flowing authentication works for get requests through ...

I have a asp mvc application consuming wcf rest services (all on the same box). For authentication calls, I am trying to set cookies inside a wcf rest service. Code on the client side - HttpR...

I have two WCF RESTful services - the "general" service is public and has no security; the "admin" service I intend to use basic authentication over SSL. This is my server side web.config: <sy...

I have found a lot of material on the web about using the ASP.NET Membership Provider with the wsHttpBindings, but I haven't seen any reference to using it with webHttpBindings. I am looking for a...