(413) Request Entity Too Large | uploadReadAheadSize

Question

I\'ve written a WCF service with .NET 4.0, which is hosted on my Windows 7 x64 Ultimate system with IIS 7.5. One of the service methods has an \'object\' as arg

Answer 1

That is not problem of IIS but the problem of WCF. WCF by default limits messages to 65KB to avoid denial of service attack with large messages. Also if you don't use MTOM it sends byte[] to base64 encoded string (33% increase in size) => 48KB * 1,33 = 64KB

To solve this issue you must reconfigure your service to accept larger messages. This issue previously fired 400 Bad Request error but in newer version WCF started to use 413 which is correct status code for this type of error.

You need to set maxReceivedMessageSize in your binding. You can also need to set readerQuotas.

<system.serviceModel>
  <bindings>
    <basicHttpBinding>
      <binding maxReceivedMessageSize="10485760">
        <readerQuotas ... />
      </binding>
    </basicHttpBinding>
  </bindings>  
</system.serviceModel>

Answer 2

I've been able to solve this by executing a dummy call ( e.g. IsAlive returning true ) just before the request with large content on the same wcf channel/client. Apparently ssl negotation is done on the first call. So no need to increase Uploadreadaheadsize.

Answer 3

This helped me to resolve the problem (one line - split for readability / copy-ability):

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd  set config "YOUR_WEBSITE_NAME" 
     -section:system.webServer/serverRuntime /uploadReadAheadSize:"2147483647" 
     /commit:apphost

Answer 4

For anyone else ever looking for an IIS WCF error 413 : Request entity to large and using a WCF service in Sharepoint, this is the information for you. The settings in the application host and web.config suggested in other sites/posts don't work in SharePoint if using the MultipleBaseAddressBasicHttpBindingServiceHostFactory. You can use SP Powershell to get the SPWebService.Content service, create a new SPWcvSettings object and update the settings as above for your service (they won't exist). Remember to just use the name of the service (e.g. [yourservice.svc]) when creating and adding the settings. See this site for more info https://robertsep.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/set-maximum-upload-filesize-sharepoint-wcf-service

Answer 5

I was receiving this error message, even though I had the max settings set within the binding of my WCF service config file:

<basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="NewBinding1"
                 receiveTimeout="01:00:00"
                 sendTimeout="01:00:00"
                 maxBufferSize="2000000000"
                 maxReceivedMessageSize="2000000000">

                 <readerQuotas maxDepth="2000000000"
                      maxStringContentLength="2000000000"
                      maxArrayLength="2000000000" 
                      maxBytesPerRead="2000000000" 
                      maxNameTableCharCount="2000000000" />
        </binding>
</basicHttpBinding>

It seemed as though these binding settings weren't being applied, thus the following error message:

IIS7 - (413) Request Entity Too Large when connecting to the service.

.

The Problem

I realised that the name="" attribute within the <service> tag of the web.config is not a free text field, as I thought it was. It is the fully qualified name of an implementation of a service contract as mentioned within this documentation page.

If that doesn't match, then the binding settings won't be applied!

<services>
  <!-- The namespace appears in the 'name' attribute -->
  <service name="Your.Namespace.ConcreteClassName">
    <endpoint address="http://localhost/YourService.svc"
      binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="NewBinding1"
      contract="Your.Namespace.IConcreteClassName" />
  </service>
</services>

I hope that saves someone some pain...

Answer 6

I was having the same issue with IIS 7.5 with a WCF REST Service. Trying to upload via POST any file above 65k and it would return Error 413 "Request Entity too large".

The first thing you need to understand is what kind of binding you've configured in the web.config. Here's a great article...

BasicHttpBinding vs WsHttpBinding vs WebHttpBinding

If you have a REST service then you need to configure it as "webHttpBinding". Here's the fix:

<system.serviceModel>

<bindings>
   <webHttpBinding>
    <binding 
      maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647" 
      maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" 
      maxBufferSize="2147483647" transferMode="Streamed">
    </binding>  
   </webHttpBinding>
</bindings>