WCF Service Client: The content type text/html; charset=utf-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding

Question

I\'ve got a WCF Service running on my local IIS server. I\'ve added it as a service reference to a C# Website Project and it adds fine and generates the proxy classes automa

Answer 1

I had a similar situation, but the client config was using a basicHttpBinding. The issue turned out to be that the service was using SOAP 1.2 and you can't specify SOAP 1.2 in a basicHttpBinding. I modified the client config to use a customBinding instead and everything worked. Here are the details of my customBinding for reference. The service I was trying to consume was over HTTPS using UserNameOverTransport.