I am trying to troubleshoot a "connection was forcibly closed by the remote host" error on a WCF client accessing a WCF self-hosted service. I was looking at the httperr logs in System32\LogFiles\HTTPERR on the service-side machine and each time I see that error on my client, I see entries in the log with my service's endpoint URI. The reason is "Request_Cancelled".
I can't find anything anywhere about what that reason signifies. I can guess, but I'd like to know for sure, as it must have some relation to the errors I am seeing in my client.
What is "Request_Cancelled" in the HTTPERR log? And as a bonus, can you shed any extra light on my WCF issues?
Request_cancelled might be a timeout.
By default it should be
OpenTimeout - 1 minute
CloseTimeout - 1 minute
SendTimeOut - 1 minute
ReceiveTimeout - 10 minute.
Try set these settings in your web.config.
It will add further logging to your web service.
At your system.serviceModel section
<system.serviceModel>
....
<diagnostics>
<messageLogging logEntireMessage="true" logMalformedMessages="true" logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true" logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true" maxMessagesToLog="3000" />
</diagnostics>
....
</system.serviceModel>
and add system.diagnostics section. It will save a log to c:\temp\wcfServiceLog.svc
<system.diagnostics>
<switches>
<add name="XmlSerialization.Compilation" value="4"/>
</switches>
<sources>
<source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing" propagateActivity="true">
<listeners>
<add name="xml" />
</listeners>
</source>
<source name="System.ServiceModel.MessageLogging">
<listeners>
<add name="xml" />
</listeners>
</source>
</sources>
<sharedListeners>
<add name="xml" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener" initializeData="c:\temp\wcfServiceLog.svc" />
</sharedListeners>
</system.diagnostics>