How can the error 'Client found response content type of 'text/html'.. be interpreted

Question

I\'m using C# and connecting to a WebService via an auto-generated C# proxy object. The method I\'m calling can be long running, and sometimes times out. I get different err

Answer 1

That means that your consumer is expecting XML from the webservice but the webservice, as your error shows, returns HTML because it's failing due to a timeout.

So you need to talk to the remote webservice provider to let them know it's failing and take corrective action. Unless you are the provider of the webservice in which case you should catch the exceptions and return XML telling the consumer which error occurred (the 'remote provider' should probably do that as well).