WCF Service behind ISA

Question

I have created a wcf service, successfully deployed to a development server(not behind an ISA Server) and was able to add a service reference to to the service in a test web app. My network administrators deployed the same service to our staging box which is behind an ISA server, when I try to add a service reference through vs2008 or use the svcutil utility I get the following:

Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'http://tstsrvr.Testdmz.staging:5910/myService/TestService.svc?wsdl'. There was an error downloading 'http://tstsrvr.Testdmz.staging:5910/myService/TestService.svc?wsdl'. The remote name could not be resolved: 'tstsrvr.Testdmz.staging' Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'https://stg-ww2.Test.com/myservice/Testservice.svc'. Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'https://stg-ww2.Test.com/myservice/Testservice.svc'. If the service is defined in the current solution, try building the solution and adding the service reference again.

I am able to hit the .svc link through a web browser and then able to click the link

svcutil.exe https://stg-ww2.myserver.com/TestService/TestService.svc?wsdl

which seems to work fine, I am pretty new to wcf so any help is appreciated.

Thanks Mark

Answer 1

svcutil.exe uses IE's proxy settings.

Uncheck "use a proxy server" from IE > Tools > Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings and see if that solves your problem.

If you still have a problem, consider adding the system.net section in your configuration file.

<system.net>
    <defaultProxy >
      <proxy autoDetect ="True" />
    </defaultProxy>
  </system.net>

and set

<transport proxyCredentialType="Windows"/>