The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request while consuming a WCF Service - asp.net

Question

Please view the code given below. While the debug reaches the request.GetResponse() statement the error has been thrown.
Uri uri = new Uri(address);
string data = "<s:Envelope xmlns:s='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'><s:Body><HasRole xmlns='http://tempuri.org/'><userName>" + sid + "</userName><role>" + role + "</role></HasRole></s:Body></s:Envelope>";
data.Replace("'", "\"");
// Create a byte array of the data we want to send
byte[] byteData = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
if (uri.Scheme == Uri.UriSchemeHttps)
{
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
request.Method = "POST";// WebRequestMethods.Http.Post;
request.ContentLength = byteData.Length;
request.ContentType = "application/soap+xml; charset=UTF-8"; // "text/xml; charset=utf-8";
//request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
//Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
using (Stream writer = request.GetRequestStream())
{
writer.Write(byteData, 0, byteData.Length);
}
//writer.Close();
using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
// Get the response stream
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
string tmp = reader.ReadToEnd();
Response.Close();
Response.Write(tmp);
}

Answer 1

I would double check the URL. If the URL looks ok on the client side, I recommend looking at access logs on your server to see what URL is being hit. 4xx errors mean a resource was not found. If the endpoint was correct, but the request was fubared, you would get a 5xx error code. (Assuming that your server side frameworks uses standard HTTP Response Codes).

Answer 2

As has been mentioned you should use the 'Add Service Reference' to access the WCF service from a .NET client. However, if you're emulating trying to connect from a non .NET client, your soap envelope is missing the header information.
<s:Header>
<Action s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">
specify your action namespace here (e.g. http://tempuri.org/ISomeService/Execute)
</Action>
</s:Header>