Determine which wcf endpoint is being used on the server

Question

I have a wcf service thats exposing a service using two endpoints. One endpoint is used for web service calls while the other is using rest.

Is there a way to determine from which endpoint the server functions are being called?

Answer 1

Actually, contrary to what I thought - it's actually pretty easy to find out what endpoint the service was called on. In your service method, add these lines of code:

OperationContext oc = OperationContext.Current;

if(oc != null)
{
    string wasCalledOn = oc.EndpointDispatcher.EndpointAddress.Uri.ToString();
}

But as I said : I would use this very wisely and "defensively" - don't start changing service behavior based on what endpoint your method was called on - that would be very bad design!

I tried this with several SOAP endpoints - not 100% sure how REST will be handled (but most likely the same or very similarly) - try it out!

But for logging, this should work just fine!

Answer 2

Lifted from the blog entry here:

You just need to look at the LocalAddress on the Channel of the current Operation Context in the method:

OperationContext.Current.Channel.LocalAddress