webHttpBinding having issue with posting 1MB xml f

Question

I have webHttpBinding for wcf service. Can not post large xml file (1MB) to service getting following error RequestEntityTooLarge (413) is not one of the following: OK (200), Created (201), Accepted (202), NonAuthoritativeInformation (203), NoContent (204), ResetContent (205), PartialContent (206)"} System.Exception {System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException}

Here is configuration for wcf service..

<service name="abc" >
      <endpoint address="http://localhost:8741/LTLInboundService/" binding="webHttpBinding"                  behaviorConfiguration="WebHttpBehaviour" contract="abc" name="webHttpBinding_LTLInboundService" >
        </endpoint>
</service>

   <webHttpBinding>
       <binding name="webHttpBinding_LTLInboundService" closeTimeout="00:10:00"
        openTimeout="00:10:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:10:00"
        allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" 
    hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" maxBufferSize="2147483647" 
    maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"
        transferMode="Streamed" 
        useDefaultWebProxy="true">
       <readerQuotas maxDepth="2147483647" maxStringContentLength="2147483647" 
    maxArrayLength="2147483647" maxBytesPerRead="2147483647" 
    maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
       <security mode="Transport">
          <transport clientCredentialType="None"/>
       </security>
        </binding>
    </webHttpBinding>   

Here is the code that is failing..

using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient("http://localhost:8741/LTLInboundService" + "/SendCompletionReports"))
{
    // Initalise a response object
    HttpResponseMessage response = null;

    string responseFilePath = Path.Combine(@"c:\Samir\abc.xml");
    string xmlData = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(responseFilePath);

    // Create a content object for the request
    HttpContent content = HttpContent.Create(xmlData, Encoding.UTF8, "text/xml");

    // Make the request and retrieve the response
    response = client.Post("http://localhost:8741/LTLInboundService" + "/SendCompletionReports", content);

    // Throw an exception if the response is not a 200 level response
    response.EnsureStatusIsSuccessful();

    // Retrieve the content of the response for processing
    response.Content.LoadIntoBuffer();
}

It fails on response.EnsureStatusIsSuccessful(); statement.

Any idea how to fix this in development and production ?

Answer 1

You defined a webHttpBinding in your config file, but it's not being used by your service because you did not specify it in the bindingConfiguration attribute.

<service name="abc" >
  <endpoint address="http://localhost:8741/LTLInboundService/"
            binding="webHttpBinding"
            behaviorConfiguration="WebHttpBehaviour" contract="abc" 
            name="webHttpBinding_LTLInboundService" >
  </endpoint>
</service>

The name attribute is used for the endpoint configuration, but has no bearing on the binding configuration used. In your <endpoint> element add this:

bindingConfiguration="webHttpBinding_LTLInboundService"

so your defined endpoint will use the values for the binding specified, not the default.

Final endpoint would look like this:

<service name="abc" >
  <endpoint address="http://localhost:8741/LTLInboundService/"
            binding="webHttpBinding"
            bindingConfiguration="webHttpBinding_LTLInboundService"
            behaviorConfiguration="WebHttpBehaviour" contract="abc" 
            name="webHttpBinding_LTLInboundService" >
  </endpoint>
</service>

Answer 2

checkout this site and pay attention to how they have this section configured under the security section Dealing with Larger Files in Asp.NET

<system.webServer>
  <security>
    <requestFiltering>
      <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="2147483648" />
    </requestFiltering>
  </security>
</system.webServer>