Content Type text/xml; charset=utf-8 was not supported by service

Question

I have a problem with a WCF service. I have a console application and I need to consume the service without using app.config, so I had to set the endpoint, etc. by code. I d

Answer 1

In my case, I had to specify messageEncoding to Mtom in app.config of the client application like that:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <startup> 
        <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1" />
    </startup>
    <system.serviceModel>
        <bindings>
            <basicHttpBinding>
                <binding name="IntegrationServiceSoap" messageEncoding="Mtom"/>
            </basicHttpBinding>
        </bindings>
        <client>
            <endpoint address="http://localhost:29495/IntegrationService.asmx"
                binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="IntegrationServiceSoap"
                contract="IntegrationService.IntegrationServiceSoap" name="IntegrationServiceSoap" />
        </client>
    </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

Both my client and server use basicHttpBinding. I hope this helps the others :)

Answer 2

I was facing the similar issue when using the Channel Factory. it was actually due to wrong Contract specified in the endpoint.

Answer 3

First Google hit says:

this is usually a mismatch in the client/server bindings, where the message version in the service uses SOAP 1.2 (which expects application/soap+xml) and the version in the client uses SOAP 1.1 (which sends text/xml). WSHttpBinding uses SOAP 1.2, BasicHttpBinding uses SOAP 1.1.

It usually seems to be a wsHttpBinding on one side and a basicHttpBinding on the other.

Answer 4

I've seen this behavior today when the

   <service name="A.B.C.D" behaviorConfiguration="returnFaults">
        <endpoint contract="A.B.C.ID" binding="basicHttpBinding" address=""/>
    </service>

was missing from the web.config. The service.svc file was there and got served. It took a while to realize that the problem was not in the binding configuration it self...