This could be due to the service endpoint binding

Question

I have a WCF Service running fine on my local machine. I put it on the servers, and I am receiving the following error:

An error occurred while receiving the HTTP response to http://xx.xx.x.xx:8200/Services/WCFClient.svc. This could be due to the service endpoint binding not using the HTTP protocol. This could also be due to an HTTP request context being aborted by the server (possibly due to the service shutting down). See server logs for more details.]

I have gone to the service in the url and it is working correctly. All I am doing for the function is returning a string to an image name, so the data being passed isn't a lot. I have traced the log and it gives me the same information. Here is my client config:

<binding name="basicHttpBinding_IWCFClient" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
         openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
         bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
         maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"
         messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" useDefaultWebProxy="true"
         allowCookies="false">
    <readerQuotas maxDepth="2147483647" maxStringContentLength="2147483647" 
                  maxArrayLength="2147483647" maxBytesPerRead="2147483647" 
                  maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
    <security mode="None">
        <transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None" realm="" />
        <message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
    </security>
</binding>
<endpoint name="basicHttpBinding_IWCFClient" 
    address="http://localhost:4295/Services/WCFClient.svc"
    binding="basicHttpBinding" 
    bindingConfiguration="basicHttpBinding_IWCFClient" 
    behaviorConfiguration="WCFGraphicManagementTool.Services.ClientBehavior"
    contract="WCFClient.IWCFClient" />

Here is my server config:

<service behaviorConfiguration="WCFGraphicManagementTool.Services.WCFClientBehavior"
    name="WCFGraphicManagementTool.Services.WCFClient">
   <endpoint name="basicHttpBinding_IWCFClient"
       address="" 
       binding="basicHttpBinding" 
       contract="WCFGraphicManagementTool.Contracts.IWCFClient" />
   <endpoint 
       address="mex" 
       binding="mexHttpBinding" 
       contract="IMetadataExchange" />
</service>
<behavior name="WCFGraphicManagementTool.Services.WCFClientBehavior">
   <dataContractSerializer maxItemsInObjectGraph="2147483647" />
   <serviceThrottling maxConcurrentCalls="120" maxConcurrentSessions="120"
                      maxConcurrentInstances="120" />
   <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
   <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
</behavior>

Would it be a setting on the server since it works on my local machine?

Answer 1

Also had this issue and it was due to forgetting to decorate my model with DataContract and DataMember attributes

Answer 2

Solution with DataContract, Flags for Enums looks a bit ugly. In my case problem been solved by adding something like "NotSet = 0" into enum:

public enum Fruits
{
  UNKNOWN = 0,
  APPLE = 1,
  BALL = 2,
  ORANGE = 3 
}

Answer 3

I've seen this error caused by a circular reference in the object graph. Including a pointer to the parent object from a child will cause the serializer to loop, and ultimately exceed the maximum message size.