WCF service using basicHttpBinding is still sending content type “text/xml”

Question

I am writing a WCF service, running on IIS, and I have a customer whose client can only talk SOAP 1.1.

Among other things, they need the content type to be \"applica

Answer 1

So do they need SOAP 1.1 or application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8? Because SOAP 1.1 specification says that the request must have text/xml as the media type. application/soap+xml is media type for SOAP 1.2. Forcing WCF to use SOAP 1.1 with application/soap+xml (= invalid SOAP) would require bigger changes than changing the binding. You will need some custom message encoder or perhaps transport channel.