Creating a custom binding in WCF from an existing nettcpbinding - wcf-security

Can anyone tell me how to create a custom binding that reproduces the exact same behavior from the following in WCF?
<netTcpBinding>
<binding name="SecureTcp" >
<security mode="TransportWithMessageCredential">
<transport clientCredentialType="Certificate" />
<message clientCredentialType="UserName" />
</security>
</binding>
</netTcpBinding>
All of the googled solutions that I've found don't seem to be working for one reason or another. I've found a lot of solutions regarding httpTransport, but very few regarding nettcptransport.
The above configuration is currently working, but I need to modify the maxClockSkew, and the only way to accomplish this is with a custom binding.
Thanks in advance,
Brian

Well, here's what I was able to come up with. They key was the authenticationMode in the secureConversationBoostrap section:
<binding name="CustomSecureTcp">
<transactionFlow />
<security authenticationMode="SecureConversation"requireSecurityContextCancellation="true">
<secureConversationBootstrap
authenticationMode="UserNameOverTransport">
</secureConversationBootstrap>
</security>
<binaryMessageEncoding/>
<sslStreamSecurity requireClientCertificate="false" />
<tcpTransport/>
</binding>
</customBinding>
EDIT: I'm pretty sure that the 'transactionProtocol="OleTransactions"' was unnecessary

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endpoint not reachable when request is too large (30 Mb +)

I'm trying to upload files via MVC and WCF.
My web.config on MVC project is configured to recive large files.
<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IFile" closeTimeout="00:30:00"
openTimeout="00:30:00" sendTimeout="00:30:00" maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647"
maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" messageEncoding="Mtom" />
The problem occurs when I call my WCF. The endpoint is right on MVC project and the web.config on WCF has this binding:
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="FileUploadServiceBinding"
transferMode="Streamed"
messageEncoding="Mtom"
maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647"
maxBufferSize="2147483647"
maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"
receiveTimeout="00:30:00"
openTimeout="00:30:00"
closeTimeout="00:30:00"
sendTimeout="00:30:00">
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="None" />
</security>
<readerQuotas maxDepth="100"
maxStringContentLength="2147483647"
maxArrayLength="2147483647"
maxBytesPerRead="4096"
maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
I'm sending files of 25Mb and it's working, but when I try to upload files of 30Mb or more, my project can't reach the service, throwing this error message:
"There was no listening endpoint at http://localhost:55010/FileService.svc able to accept the message." This is usually caused by an incorrect SOAP address or action. Get more details. "
Thank you!
If you're hosting your service in IIS Express, or IIS, chances are the default value for the maxAllowedContentLength of the Request Filtering module is getting in the way (it's 30000000 by default).
Try increasing it by adding something like the following in your web.config file:
<system.webServer>
<security>
<requestFiltering >
<requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="52428800" />
<requestFiltering>
</security>
</system.webServer>
I fixed the problem on server's web.config with the following line:
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" enableVersionHeader="false" maxRequestLength="2147483647" executionTimeout="1600" requestLengthDiskThreshold="2147483647" />
Now my problem is the System.OutOfMemoryException when i'm trying to copy my stream to a memorystream, but it's out of this post escope.
Thank you guys!

How to start 2660 port in IIS for Tridion Core Service connection using netTcp

I am trying to connect to Tridion using core service script, here is my code:
public static SessionAwareCoreServiceClient Client;
Client = new SessionAwareCoreServiceClient("netTcp_2011");
Client.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential = new NetworkCredential(user, password);
web.Config has following:
<system.serviceModel>
<!-- Default/example WCF settings for Core Service. These settings should be copied into the host application's configuration file. -->
<bindings>
<!-- Default Core Service binding settings are provided here. These can be used as a starting point for further customizations. -->
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="basicHttp" maxReceivedMessageSize="10485760">
<readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="10485760" maxArrayLength="10485760"/>
<security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">
<!-- For LDAP or SSO authentication of transport credentials, use clientCredentialType="Basic" -->
<transport clientCredentialType="Windows"/>
</security>
</binding>
<binding name="streamDownload_basicHttp" maxReceivedMessageSize="209715200" transferMode="StreamedResponse" messageEncoding="Mtom" sendTimeout="00:15:00">
<security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">
<!-- For LDAP or SSO authentication of transport credentials, use clientCredentialType="Basic" -->
<transport clientCredentialType="Windows"/>
</security>
</binding>
<binding name="streamUpload_basicHttp" maxReceivedMessageSize="209715200" transferMode="StreamedRequest" messageEncoding="Mtom" receiveTimeout="00:15:00">
<security mode="None"/>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
<netTcpBinding>
<binding name="netTcp" transactionFlow="true" transactionProtocol="WSAtomicTransaction11" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647">
<readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="2147483647" maxArrayLength="2147483647"/>
</binding>
<binding name="streamDownload_netTcp" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" transferMode="StreamedResponse" sendTimeout="00:20:00"/>
<binding name="streamUpload_netTcp" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" transferMode="StreamedRequest" receiveTimeout="00:20:00"/>
</netTcpBinding>
</bindings>
<client>
<!--Dev 2013 -->
<endpoint name="netTcp_2011" address="net.tcp://localhost:2660/CoreService/2011/netTcp" binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="netTcp" contract="Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.ISessionAwareCoreService"/>
<endpoint name="streamDownload_netTcp_2011" address="net.tcp://localhost:2660/CoreService/2011/streamDownload_netTcp" binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="streamDownload_netTcp" contract="Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.IStreamDownload"/>
<endpoint name="streamUpload_netTcp_2011" address="net.tcp://localhost:2660/CoreService/2011/streamUpload_netTcp" binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="streamUpload_netTcp" contract="Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.IStreamUpload"/>
<!-- -->
</client>
</system.serviceModel>
Still I get this Error:
Could not connect to net.tcp://localhost:2660/CoreService/2011/netTcp. The connection attempt lasted for a time span of 00:00:01.0520000. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it localhost:2660.
Note: localhost can also be an IP of a CMS instance.
Can anyone help?
Okay, so Over the time I educated myself and can clearly say that the error target machine actively refused it localhost:2660 clearly says that the port is not open for you to use.
So do these two things to be sure:
Make sure you have allowed net.tcp in IIS
And the port 2660 open in the windows firewall?
run a netstat -tan to see whether anything is running on 2660, if not then you can not access it.
Also If you are running your code form local system or from another server, in case netTcp is not working, try to use wsHttp or BasicHttp (provided you have these bindings in your server core service's web.config)
The Core Service runs as a Windows Service, not from IIS. Open Windows Services and make sure that the Tridion Content Manager Service Host is running.

how to pass large data to service layer using wcf service?

I am trying to implement attachment functionality in one of my web application. It has three layer. Presentation, Business and Service Layer and i have blob datatype in database of attachment field....i am getting below Error while transferring data from business layer to service layer.
The remote server returned an unexpected response: (400) Bad Request
I cant find any solution even i tried with increase arraylength, buffersize etc...But still getting error...So if anyone have any idea than please help me....I am facing this issue since 5 days.....
Here is my web.config settings
<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_ITestService" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferSize="83886080" maxBufferPoolSize="83886080" maxReceivedMessageSize="83886080"
messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
realm="" />
<message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>
</binding>
turn on WCF tracing on server side by adding following section to WCF host's configuration file. you will be able to get more specific reason for your failure from the trace file.
<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="false"/>
<sources>
<source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing" propagateActivity="true">
<listeners>
<add name="sdt" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener" initializeData="c:\temp\ServiceTrace.svclog"/>
</listeners>
</source>
</sources>
</system.diagnostics>
You need to use WCF streaming for the purpose of uploading large files. But still there are some limits for the approach being used. So transferring large files over HTTP needs a lot of considerations.
Detailed examples and consideration has been posted already at following links.
http://garfoot.com/blog/2008/06/transferring-large-files-using-wcf/
http://kjellsj.blogspot.com/2007/02/wcf-streaming-upload-files-over-http.html
need to use WCF streaming for the purpose of uploading large files. But still there are some limits for the approach being used. So transferring large files over HTTP needs a lot of considerations. Detailed examples and consideration has been posted already at following links. http://garfoot.com/blog/2008/06/transferring-large-files-using-wcf/
http://kjellsj.blogspot.com/2007/02/wcf-streaming-upload-files-over-http.html

Error 413 when uploading large files using WCF Service on IIS7`

I have a web application which enables users to upload files. The files are then saved using a WCF service on another service. This uploading works fine until I upload a file around 4.5 MB. When I upload a file above a certain size, I get the error:
Soap Error: 413 The server is refusing to process a request because the request entity is larger than the server is willing or able to process...
This error appears in the system event log of the server on which the WCF service is running.
The solutions that I've found have told me to change the maxAllowedContentLength and uploadReadAheadSize settings in the applicationHost config file. However changing the maxAllowedContentLength to only created a different error if I set it to something really small and changing the uploadReadAheadSize value didn't have any effect on the problem. Does anyone know what I have to change and where I have to change it? I've been looking for hours and I'm starting to get impatient :(. Thanks for the help!
EDIT:
Ok the web.config of the WCF Service located in the on the production system is as follows. This is the web.config located in the folder that the IIS Site of the WCF Web Services points to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="SOAP" path="*.wsdl" verb="*" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\MSSoap\Binaries\SOAPIS30.dll" resourceType="Unspecified" preCondition="bitness32" />
<add name="WSDL Mapping" path="*.wsdl" verb="*" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Program Files\Common Files\MSSoap\Binaries\SOAPIS30.dll" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
The configuration on the test system is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="WSDL Mapping" path="*.wsdl" verb="*" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Program Files\Common Files\MSSoap\Binaries\SOAPIS30.dll" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
As you can see, there is no mention of any content length or anything in either one of the files. I have to admit, I'm pretty stumped at this point. But like I said, I'm no expert in things IIS.
EDIT 2:
Here is the serviceModel node of my web application's web.config:
<system.serviceModel>
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="WsJobsSoapBinding" closeTimeout="00:05:00" openTimeout="00:05:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:10:00" allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" maxBufferSize="2147483647" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered" useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="2147483647" maxArrayLength="16384" maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384"/>
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None" realm=""/>
<message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default"/>
</security>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<client>
<endpoint address="http://srvts01test:90/WsJobs.WSDL" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="WsJobsSoapBinding" contract="JobsWs.WsJobsSoapPort" name="WsJobsSoapPort"/>
</client>
</system.serviceModel>
This is the web.config of my web application that calls the WCF service and not the web.config of the WCF service itself. Thanks again for any help :)
I found an article that talks about the 45KB size limit you mentioned in the chat. It includes the configuration changes that were made.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/166763/WCF-Streaming-Upload-Download-Files-Over-HTTP
It's possible that your test environment has these changes made so that's one thing to look for/consider. People sometimes don't overwrite configuration files during deployment so you may have an old file there that just works.
You want to change the MaxReceivedMessageSize.
I think when I did this I also had to change the MaxBufferPoolSize to the same value.
You can do it via the config or via code like this.
binding.MaxBufferPoolSize = 67108864;
binding.MaxReceivedMessageSize = 67108864;
I was also having these 413 errors in my WCF Service, which was running under .Net 4.5.
The solution was simple.
Previously, my web.config contained this:
<services>
<service name="PocketCRMServices.Service1">
<endpoint address="../Service1.svc"
binding="webHttpBinding"
contract="PocketCRMServices.IService1"
behaviorConfiguration="webBehaviour" />
</service>
</services>
So, by default, it was already using the webHttpBinding binding.
To get rid of the 413 errors, I just needed to add this straight after this section:
<bindings>
<webHttpBinding>
<binding maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"
maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647777" >
<readerQuotas maxDepth="2147483647" maxStringContentLength="2147483647"
maxArrayLength="2147483647" maxBytesPerRead="2147483647"
maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
</binding>
</webHttpBinding>
</bindings>
And that's it.

WCF Error - unexpected response: (400) Bad Request

I'm having trouble finding an answer for this problem. Most similar posts lean seem to be fixed by adjusting some of the maximum size settings in the web.config file. However, none of those suggestions have fixed my issue.
To give a little more background, I'm porting a asmx web service, to a WCF web service hosted in Windows Azure. This problem came up during testing. If I pass a small number of transactions to my webservice in a single call, it tends to work just fine. This error come up though when my transaction size gets around 50-60 (transactions). Serialized to xml, the file size is around 300K, so it's nothing insanely large. But it does tend to lean towards a size issue.
Also, turning on WCF tracing, I found the following exception occuring:
System.ServiceModel.ProtocolException: The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded. To increase the quota, use the MaxReceivedMessageSize property on the appropriate binding element.
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpInput.ThrowHttpProtocolException(String message, HttpStatusCode statusCode, String statusDescription)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpInput.ThrowMaxReceivedMessageSizeExceeded()
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpInput.ReadBufferedMessage(Stream inputStream)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpInput.ParseIncomingMessage(Exception&amp; requestException)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelListener.HttpContextReceived(HttpRequestContext context, Action callback)
So from the exception, it looks as though one of the settings if off in my web.config, but here is what that looks like:
<system.serviceModel>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior>
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
</behavior>
<behavior name="MetadataEnabled">
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
<useRequestHeadersForMetadataAddress>
<defaultPorts>
<add scheme="http" port="8081"/>
<add scheme="https" port="444"/>
</defaultPorts>
</useRequestHeadersForMetadataAddress>
<dataContractSerializer maxItemsInObjectGraph="111024000"/>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<services>
<service name="Bandicoot.Core" behaviorConfiguration="MetadataEnabled">
<endpoint name="HttpEndpoint"
address=""
binding="wsHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="wsHttp"
contract="Bandicoot.CORE.IRepricer" />
<endpoint name="HttpMetadata"
address="contract"
binding="mexHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="mexBinding"
contract="Bandicoot.CORE.Stack" />
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="http://localhost/Core"/>
</baseAddresses>
</host>
</service>
</services>
<bindings>
<wsHttpBinding>
<binding name="wsHttp" maxReceivedMessageSize="111024000"
messageEncoding="Text" maxBufferPoolSize="111024000"
textEncoding="UTF-8">
<readerQuotas maxBytesPerRead="111024000"
maxArrayLength="111024000"
maxStringContentLength="111024000"/>
<security mode="None"/>
</binding>
</wsHttpBinding>
<mexHttpBinding>
<binding name="mexBinding"/>
</mexHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
Does anyone have any other suggestions, or is there something mis-configured in my web.config that I'm just not seeing?
Thanks for any advice!
Edit: Here is the settings from my client's app.config
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_CORE" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferSize="14194304" maxBufferPoolSize="14194304" maxReceivedMessageSize="14194304"
messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="1000" maxStringContentLength="111024000"
maxArrayLength="111024000" maxBytesPerRead="1024000" maxNameTableCharCount="111024000" />
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None" realm="" />
<message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
Edit: adding addition client information:
<client>
<endpoint address="http://localhost:92/CORE.svc" binding="basicHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_CORE" contract="Core.CORE"
name="BasicHttpBinding_CORE" />
</client>
Edit: Attempted changing the service bindings to basicHttpBinding - config changes:
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="basicHttp" maxReceivedMessageSize="111024000"
messageEncoding="Text" maxBufferPoolSize="111024000"
textEncoding="UTF-8">
<readerQuotas maxArrayLength="111024000" maxBytesPerRead="111024000" maxStringContentLength="111024000"/>
<security mode="None" />
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
<service name="Bandicoot.Core" behaviorConfiguration="MetadataEnabled">
<endpoint binding="basicHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="basicHttp"
contract="Bandicoot.CORE.IRepricer" />
<endpoint address="mex"
binding="mexHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="mexBinding"
contract="IMetadataExchange" />
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="http://localhost/Core"/>
</baseAddresses>
</host>
</service>
And the client's app.config as well for reference:
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_CORE" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="100000000"
messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
realm="" />
<message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<client>
<endpoint address="http://localhost:92/CORE.svc" binding="basicHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_CORE" contract="Core.CORE"
name="BasicHttpBinding_CORE" />
</client>
You need to be setting the maxReceivedMessageSize on the client (where the message you're returning from your service is incoming) - in its app.config or web.config:
<system.serviceModel>
<bindings>
<wsHttpBinding>
<binding name="wsHttp" maxReceivedMessageSize="111024000"
messageEncoding="Text" maxBufferPoolSize="111024000"
textEncoding="UTF-8">
<readerQuotas maxBytesPerRead="111024000"
maxArrayLength="111024000"
maxStringContentLength="111024000"/>
<security mode="None"/>
</binding>
</wsHttpBinding>
<mexHttpBinding>
<binding name="mexBinding"/>
</mexHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<client name="whatever">
<endpoint name="HttpEndpoint"
address=""
binding="wsHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="wsHttp"
contract="Bandicoot.CORE.IRepricer" />
</client>
</system.serviceModel>
The default value for maxReceivedMessageSize is 64K, unless you change it.
I finally figured this one out this morning. The problem was that my service was not using the configuration settings that I thought it was. The reason? The service name in the configuration needs to be a fully qualified path to the service being implemented.
I found this link helpful figuring it out.
I found it a little odd that my service worked without pointing it to an actual endpoint, I guess it just uses a series of default values and if you want something different you can configure them in the web.config? I think this explains why I was getting a basicHttpBinding when I consumed the webservice in my client, instead of wsHttpBinding.
Took a few days to figure it out, but was educational. Thanks for the suggestions!
I had the same error and the cause was revealed to be a configuration error, too.
But in my case this was, like marc_s already posted, the maxReceivedMessageSize setting on the server side. The server was still using its default configuration, which was as low as 64 kb.
As obvious as this now sounds, that long it took me to find out that the error was not on my (client) side.
I hope that this may help someone else.
Hi Question Poster "Brosto"!
This supplements your Nov 17 '10 at 15:29 answer.
We had a “fun”, or should I say “educational” Production Deployment Testing issue today that took most of the day to resolve, and it was literally caused by one keystroke. We only confirmed the source of the problem, after we found out the problem disappeared after the Web Farm was fully deployed.
Here was the cause. When we test our Production Deployment, and do so against a “Single Server” by changing our hosts file, we are bypassing the Load Balancer, and the call to the Single Server ends up going over the default http port 80! When we test against the “Load Balancer”, the call to the Single Server from the Load Balancer, ends up going over the Load Balancer defined port 81!
Since the Service Endpoint Address must be “fully qualified”, to enable the service to find its Custom Bindings, the Services.config file on the Single Server must be changed to reflect the difference between “Single Server” vs “Load Balanced Server” endpoint connections, as follows:
Single Server connection:
endpoint address="http://www.myserver.com:80/Services/MyService.svc"
Load Balanced Server connection:
endpoint address="http://www.myserver.com:81/Services/MyService.svc"
My boss correctly diagnosed the core problem early, saying that the server was acting like the custom bindings were being ignored and the defaults were being used instead. After showing him your comment above where you mention the requirement of “fully qualified” service endpoint address, he realized that the host file redirection was causing our browser request to go to the Single Server over default port 80, instead of the Load Balanced port 81, which in effect altered the fully qualified service endpoint address, which caused the server to ignore the custom bindings and revert to default settings. Please note that it did NOT fail to call the service, it only failed to bind the custom bindings!
Hopefully someone will remember this posting the next time we Production Test a Service with custom bindings :)

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