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

If you are using .NET version 4.0. the validateRequestion is turned on by default for all the pages. in previous versions 1.1 and 2.0 it was only for aspx page. You can turn the default validation off. In that case you have to do the due diligence and make sure that the data is clean. Use HtmlEncode. Do the following to turn the validation off

In the web.config add the following lines for system.web

and

You can read more about this http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet4/breaking-changes also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649310.aspx

Hope this helps.