WCF Web Service error: “Service endpoint binding not using HTTP protocol”?

Question

I\'ve got a simple WCF service that has worked fine while I\'ve been testing on my dev machine.

Now I\'ve moved the web service to a web server, and I\'m running the

Answer 1

Just faced the exact same problem but it was caused by security protocol type hardcoded to TLS 1.2 while the service was deployed to 2008 server without R2 (and 32 bit to boot, which means non-upgradable to R2).

This is a very unlikely scenario for anyone else, but thought I'd mention.

If anyone is in the same situation and has a line of code like this, you know why you are getting the error now:

System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = System.Net.SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;