(413) Request Entity Too Large | uploadReadAheadSize

Question

I\'ve written a WCF service with .NET 4.0, which is hosted on my Windows 7 x64 Ultimate system with IIS 7.5. One of the service methods has an \'object\' as arg

Answer 1

I was receiving this error message, even though I had the max settings set within the binding of my WCF service config file:

It seemed as though these binding settings weren't being applied, thus the following error message:

IIS7 - (413) Request Entity Too Large when connecting to the service.

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The Problem

I realised that the name="" attribute within the tag of the web.config is not a free text field, as I thought it was. It is the fully qualified name of an implementation of a service contract as mentioned within this documentation page.

If that doesn't match, then the binding settings won't be applied!

I hope that saves someone some pain...