(413) Request Entity Too Large | uploadReadAheadSize

Question

I\'ve written a WCF service with .NET 4.0, which is hosted on my Windows 7 x64 Ultimate system with IIS 7.5. One of the service methods has an \'object\' as arg

Answer 1

I was having the same issue with IIS 7.5 with a WCF REST Service. Trying to upload via POST any file above 65k and it would return Error 413 "Request Entity too large".

The first thing you need to understand is what kind of binding you've configured in the web.config. Here's a great article...

BasicHttpBinding vs WsHttpBinding vs WebHttpBinding

If you have a REST service then you need to configure it as "webHttpBinding". Here's the fix: