Why does my WCF service give the message 'does not have a Binding with the None MessageVersion'?

Question

I have created a working WCF service. I now want to add some security to it to filter Ip Addresses. I have followed the example that microsoft publish in the samples to try and add a IDispatchMessageInspector that will raise a call AfterReceiveRequest and then throw an error if the ip address is not from the allowed list.

After looking at the code; they have configured it using 'wsHttpBinding', however I want to use 'webHttpBinding' or 'basicHttpBinding'. But when I set it up I get the error:

The endpoint at 'http://upload/api/Api.svc/soap' does not have a Binding with the None MessageVersion. 'System.ServiceModel.Description.WebHttpBehavior' is only intended for use with WebHttpBinding or similar bindings.

My configuration is:

<system.serviceModel>       <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true">     </serviceHostingEnvironment>     <!--Set up the service-->     <services>       <service behaviorConfiguration="SOAPRESTDemoBehavior" name="HmlApi">         <endpoint address="rest" binding="webHttpBinding" contract="VLSCore2.Interfaces.IHmlApi" behaviorConfiguration="SOAPRESTDemoEndpointBehavior" />         <endpoint address="soap" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="VLSCore2.Interfaces.IHmlApi" behaviorConfiguration="SOAPRESTDemoEndpointBehavior" />       </service>     </services>      <!--Define the behaviours-->     <behaviors>       <serviceBehaviors>         <behavior name="SOAPRESTDemoBehavior">           <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />           <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />         </behavior>       </serviceBehaviors>        <!---Endpoint -->       <endpointBehaviors>         <behavior name="SOAPRESTDemoEndpointBehavior">           <ipFilter/>           <webHttp />         </behavior>       </endpointBehaviors>     </behaviors>      <extensions>       <behaviorExtensions>         <add name="ipFilter" type="VLSCore2.Api.IpFilterBehaviourExtensionElement, VLSCore2, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null"/>       </behaviorExtensions>     </extensions>    </system.serviceModel> 

So what im wondering is how I can set up my message inspector without using WebHttpBinding. Is this even possible?

I want to use SOAP 'basicHttpBinding' not wsHttpBinding (and all of the WS*) associated overheads....

Answer 1

This is simply happening because you have configured a single endpointBehavior for both the SOAP and REST endpoints but the SOAP endpoint can't have the webHttp behavior. You need to split these apart so that they are:

  <endpointBehaviors>     <behavior name="SOAPDemoEndpointBehavior">       <ipFilter/>     </behavior>     <behavior name="RESTDemoEndpointBehavior">       <ipFilter/>       <webHttp />     </behavior>   </endpointBehaviors> 

and then your endpoints should be:

    <endpoint address="rest" binding="webHttpBinding" contract="VLSCore2.Interfaces.IHmlApi" behaviorConfiguration="RESTDemoEndpointBehavior" />     <endpoint address="soap" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="VLSCore2.Interfaces.IHmlApi" behaviorConfiguration="SOAPDemoEndpointBehavior" /> 

Answer 2

For me, this was because I had a 'webHttp' defined as a behaviour for a SOAP config. Only its absence resolved it..