Cannot consume WCF service. (413) Request Entity Too Large

Question

Hi,

I have a WCF Service which I consume in BizTalk. I have had this working previously but now after recent deploys, it is failing. When BizTalk tries to send a message to the WCF service, I get the error:

The adapter failed to transmit message going to send port "WcfSendPort_TradacomsSalesOrder_BasicHttpBinding_ITradacomsSalesOrder" with URL "http://024354pc/XMLFileDesizer.WCF/TradacomsSalesOrder.svc". It will be retransmitted after the retry interval specified for this Send Port. Details:"System.ServiceModel.ProtocolException: The remote server returned an unexpected response: (413) Request Entity Too Large. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (413) Request Entity Too Large.

I have consumed the service by the 'Consume WCF Service' wizard in BizTalk. This gives me a schema, my message types, my port types and my bindings. I have then used XSD to generate a c# class of the generated schema so that I can create a new request message in code and then serialize as the schema type. This is what I always do and it usually works!!

I have set the MaxRequestedMessageSize property on my endpoint in WCF. The wizard in BizTalk gives me 2 binding files, 1 basicHttpBinding and 1 custom basicHttpBining. I have tried both. I have also set the maxRequestedMessageSize on each. I have also set this property in my orchestration like this:

msgSplitTradacomsInput(WCF.MaxReceivedMessageSize) = 1000000;

But, no joy. The really annoying thing is if I create a new BizTalk project and consume the WCF service via the wizard, setting everything up fro fresh, it works! I have tried stripping everything our of my project an generating it again.

The message that I am sending is a mere 58Kb. 

I am using BizTalk Server 2006 R2 on Win Xp Pro 32-bit. 

Here is the full exception with stack trace:

The adapter failed to transmit message going to send port "WcfSendPort_TradacomsSalesOrder_BasicHttpBinding_ITradacomsSalesOrder" with URL "http://024354pc/XMLFileDesizer.WCF/TradacomsSalesOrder.svc". It will be retransmitted after the retry interval specified for this Send Port. Details:"System.ServiceModel.ProtocolException: The remote server returned an unexpected response: (413) Request Entity Too Large. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (413) Request Entity Too Large.
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelAsyncRequest.CompleteGetResponse(IAsyncResult result)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Server stack trace: 
   at System.ServiceModel.AsyncResult.End[TAsyncResult](IAsyncResult result)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.SendAsyncResult.End(SendAsyncResult result)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.EndCall(String action, Object[] outs, IAsyncResult result)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.EndRequest(IAsyncResult result)

Exception rethrown at [0]: 
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.IRequestChannel.EndRequest(IAsyncResult result)
   at Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Wcf.Runtime.WcfClient`2.RequestCallback(IAsyncResult result)".

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I'd really appreciate any suggestions

Thanks

Rod

Answer 1

Hi Rod,

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

<system.serviceModel>
  <bindings>
    <basicHttpBinding>
      <binding maxReceivedMessageSize="10487760">
        <readerQuotas ... />
      </binding>
    </basicHttpBinding>
  </bindings> 
</system.serviceModel>

Thanks

Abhishek

Answer 2

Thanks for your answer Abhishek but it doesn't fix my problem. I already had the maxReceivedMessageSize set in my binding. I did not have the readerQuotas set but I have just tried and no luck :(

Here is my WCF Web.Config:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>

  <system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
      <source name="NewSource" switchValue="Warning, ActivityTracing">
        <listeners>
          <add type="System.Diagnostics.DefaultTraceListener" name="Default">
            <filter type="" />
          </add>
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>
    <sharedListeners>
      <add type="System.Diagnostics.EventLogTraceListener, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"
        name="NewListener" traceOutputOptions="LogicalOperationStack, DateTime, Timestamp, ProcessId, ThreadId, Callstack">
        <filter type="" />
      </add>
    </sharedListeners>
  </system.diagnostics>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
  </system.web>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <services>
      <service name="NewServiceType">
        <endpoint address="http://024354pc/XMLFileDesizer.WCF/TradacomsSalesOrder.svc"
          binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="basicHttpBinding_ITradacomsSalesOrder"
          name="" bindingNamespace="http://Bakkavor.XMLFileDesizer.Schemas.TradacomsSalesOrder"
          contract="Bakkavor.XMLFileDesizer.WCF.ITradacomsSalesOrder" />
      </service>
    </services>
    <diagnostics>
      <messageLogging logEntireMessage="true" logKnownPii="true" logMalformedMessages="true"
        logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true" logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true" />
      <endToEndTracing propagateActivity="true" activityTracing="true"
        messageFlowTracing="true" />
    </diagnostics>
    <bindings>
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="basicHttpBinding_ITradacomsSalesOrder" maxBufferPoolSize="10487760"
          maxBufferSize="10487760" maxReceivedMessageSize="10487760">
          <readerQuotas maxDepth="10487760" maxStringContentLength="10487760"
            maxArrayLength="10487760" maxBytesPerRead="10487760" maxNameTableCharCount="10487760" />
        </binding>
      </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>
    <client/>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior>
          <!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information, set the value below to false before deployment -->
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
          <!-- To receive exception details in faults for debugging purposes, set the value below to true.  Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing exception information -->
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
  </system.serviceModel>
 <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
    <!--
        To browse web app root directory during debugging, set the value below to true.
        Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing web app folder information.
      -->
    <directoryBrowse enabled="true"/>
  </system.webServer>

</configuration>

Does this look ok?

Answer 3

Hi Rod ,

Would ask you to have look at following post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jiruss/archive/2007/04/13/http-413-request-entity-too-large-can-t-upload-large-files-using-iis6.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10122957/iis7-413-request-entity-too-large-uploadreadaheadsize

Hope it helps.

---

Maheshkumar S. Tiwari|http://tech-findings.blogspot.in/

Answer 4

Hi Rod ,

Can you try this one

<bindings>
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647" maxBufferSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" messageEncoding="Text">
          <readerQuotas maxDepth="2000000" maxStringContentLength="2147483647" maxArrayLength="2147483647" maxBytesPerRead="2147483647" maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
        </binding>
      </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>

Check IIS uploadreadaheadsize and set to 204800

cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/1/uploadreadaheadsize 204800

and increase max buffer size at send and receive port binding Properties . Restart the IIS and Host instance .

Thanks

Abhishek

Answer 5

Thanks again Abhishek you've done it !!

I had previously set uploadReadAhead and triple checked the port settings. The problem was the binding configuration. I was using a named binding configuration and referencing that in my endpoint. If I take out the names and use the default as you have done, it works!

This is a real help, thank you 

Answer 6

Thanks  Rod and Abhishek, this solved the same issue in my application also. However still not clear why name had to be removed ? Would like to hear back if this was  developer mistake or Microsoft issue ?