Wcf config binding issue for large packets

Question

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to create a WCF web service to parse XML strings but the packages are getting bigger and now i get the " The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded" error.

What i'm i doing wrong :-(

Below is my web.config.

Could somebody give me a suggestion? :-)

tnx!

Martijn Vaandering

  <system.serviceModel>
    
    <services>
      <service behaviorConfiguration="defaultBehavior" name="NovaObjectService.NovaObjectWebService">
        <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="httpBinding"
          contract="NovaObjectService.INovaObjectWebService" />
      </service>
    </services>
    
    <bindings>
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="httpBinding" maxBufferSize="500000" maxReceivedMessageSize="500000" />
      </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>

    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="defaultBehavior">
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    
    <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
    
  </system.serviceModel>

Answer 1

Increase the maxReceivedMessageSize property of your binding. Double it like this. You have to increase maxBufferSize too.

<binding name="httpBinding" maxBufferSize="131072" maxReceivedMessageSize="131072" />

131072 = 65536 (default value) x2

Answer 2

Thanks for Pantelis's reply.

One more link for explaining the maxReceivedMessageSize property

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/d2090703-eb60-46f4-adf7-31127338a0a0/

Answer 3

Tnx folks! :-)

is my syntax ok? because i still get the error in "WcfTestClient"

Martijn

Answer 4

omg... i'm a real pebkac... WCF test client has a config too...