No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it?

Question

Sometimes I get the following error while I was doing HttpWebRequest to a WebService. I copied my code below too.

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System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect         


        

Answer 1

This happened to me too.. Sometimes when I open my project this error shown up which was frustrating. The problem was that sometimes the port-number of web service was changing unexpectedly.

This problem usually happens when you have more than one copies of the project

My project was calling the Web service with a specific port number which I assigned in the Web.Config file of my main project file. As the port number changed unexpectedly, the browser was unable to find the Web service and throwing that error.

I solved this by following the below steps: (Visual Studio 2010)

Go to Properties of the Web service project --> click on Web tab --> In Servers section --> Check Specific port and then assign the standard port number by which your main project is calling the web service.

I hope this will solve the problem.

Cheers :)