Specify supported media types when sending “415 unsupported media type”

Question

If a clients sends data in an unsupported media type to a HTTP server, the server answers with status \"415 unsupported media type\". But how to tell the client what media t

Answer 1

tl;dr; Edited the generated proxy class to inherit from Microsoft.Web.Services3.WebServicesClientProtocol**.

I came across this question when troubleshooting this error, so I thought I would help the next person who might come through here, although not sure if it answers the question as stated. I ran into this error when at some point I had to take over an existing solution which was utilizing WSE and MTOM encoding. It was a windows client calling a web service.

To the point, the client was calling the web service where it would throw that error. Something that contributed to resolving that error for me was to check the web service proxy class that apparently is generated by default to inherit from System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol. Essentially that meant that it didn't actually use WSE3.

Anyhow I manually edited the proxy and changed it to inherit from Microsoft.Web.Services3.WebServicesClientProtocol.

BTW, to see the generated proxy class in VS click on the web reference and then click the 'Show All Files' toolbar button. The reference.cs is da place of joy!

Hope it helps.