Comments on: WCF Bad Request

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:05:04 +0000

That’s funny, @trcull. You just highlighted a link to another post of mine! I found the answer to the problem described here, in April 2008, one month later, in May 2008.

A commenter on that post confirmed that it seemed to be a glitch related to InstanceContextMode.

By: trcull

trcull — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:18:55 +0000

Not sure if this helps your particular case, but this guy found that changing the InstanceContextMode made a similar problem go away…

http://underground.infovark.com/2008/05/21/wcf-instance-context/

By: WCF Instance Context « Infovark Underground

WCF Instance Context « Infovark Underground — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:31:24 +0000

[...] finally figured out the source of my bad request problem. Apparently the Windows Communication Foundation deals with exceptions differently [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:19:18 +0000

Nice — I like how they assume that the server getting an unhandled exception is actually the fault of the client.

Most other environments manage to make do with 500 errors for that sort of thing

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:34:11 +0000

Grrr..

It seems like it’s “by design” in the webhttp binding.

Apparently you’re supposed to override the webhttpbinding and implement your own custom error handler.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2248288&SiteID=1

As if we needed more proof that the webhttp binding was an afterthought to the ultra soapy WCF anyway… * sigh *