IIS7 - Webrequest failing with a 404.13 when the size of the request params exceeds 30mb

Question

I have a simple webmethod

[WebMethod]
public int myWebMethod(string fileName, Byte[] fileContent)

However, whenever I pass a byte array whi

Answer 1

This is pretty old. But I have the same problem today. To fix this, you need to make the necessary setting changes in web.config, then deploy to the web server. The important part is that you need to re-deploy your application to the web server. By doing so, the IIS settings are updated for you. Depending on how you do your deployment, you may need to delete your web application from the web server first, then deploy again. Updating web.config in place won't fix the problem. Hope this helps others with the same problem.