Large WCF web service request failing with (400) HTTP Bad Request

Question

I\'ve encountered this apparently common problem and have been unable to resolve it.

If I call my WCF web service with a relatively small number of items in

Answer 1

Just want to point out

Apart from MaxRecivedMessageSize, there are also attributes under ReaderQuotas, you might hit number of items limit instead of size limit. MSDN link is here

Answer 2

In my case, it was not working even after trying all solutions and setting all limits to max. In last I found out that a Microsoft IIS filtering module Url Scan 3.1 was installed on IIS/website, which have it's own limit to reject incoming requests based on content size and return "404 Not found page".

It's limit can be updated in %windir%\System32\inetsrv\urlscan\UrlScan.ini file by setting MaxAllowedContentLength to the required value.

For eg. following will allow upto 300 mb requests

MaxAllowedContentLength=314572800

Hope it will help someone!

Answer 3

In the server in .NET 4.0 in web.config you also need to change in the default binding. Set the follwowing 3 parms:

 < basicHttpBinding>  
   < !--http://www.intertech.com/Blog/post/NET-40-WCF-Default-Bindings.aspx  
    - Enable transfer of large strings with maxBufferSize, maxReceivedMessageSize and maxStringContentLength
    -->  
   < binding **maxBufferSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"**>  
      < readerQuotas **maxStringContentLength="2147483647"**/>            
   < /binding>