Getting Gibberish instead of Hello World from a service with webHttpBinding
问题 Here is a trivial example that is supposed to return "Hello World" string. However, a browser displays something like SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ= . Which is the right way to return plain text from an oldskul-style service? please know that: I can't return a string: three Unicode characters will be automatically prepended and the legacy HTTP client won't be able to interoperate. I could return a Message , but still must keep parsing functionality to extract the data variable. Mixing Message and int types