Setting Max Message and buffer size for WCF webhttp

Question

I currently have a WCF service with webHttp bindings, im attempting to increase the max size that can be inputted to the service by overriding the default settings in config

Answer 1

There's a multitude of settings that might have an influence depending on your settings - try this:

By defining your "version" of the webHttpBinding and setting all those parameters to higher values, you should be able to get through any message size (almost).

Mind you: this does open up your system to the potential of being flooded with huge messages and thus be brought down to its knees (classic denial-of-service attacks) - that's the reason these limits are set fairly low - by design and on purpose.

You can change them to higher values - just be aware what you're doing and what the security risks are, if you do!

Marc

PS: In order to make use of these settings, you of course have to reference that binding configuration in your server and client side configs: