Cannot access WCF service remotely

Question

BACKGROUND

We have a WCF web service hosted in a Windows Service running with the basicHttpBinding

Answer 1

Try using useRequestHeadersForMetadataAddress

This will allow the service to insert the URI you used to access the service in to the metadata so the wsdl aligns. Sometimes you'll go to access http://1.2.3.4/service.svc but the metadata will reference http://localhost. Locally that's fine, but remotely that makes grabbing the endpoint information impossible. Instead, now all those localhost references will use 1.2.3.4 instead.