Http 404: Not Found (WebException)

Question

Hi,

I am using a console app/class library to invoke a asp.net web service. The class library queries the database and sends the data to the web service. What I notice is that when the amount of data is huge (with 20 columns and 18K records), i get a HTTP 404: Not Found exception from the web service.

I have tried increasing the maxReqeustLength and executionTimeout properties in the httpRuntime tag in the web.config of the web service.

Is there any thing that I can do to overcome this?

Thanks, Rajeev

Answer 1

404 indicates that the file is not found. You're going to have to look closer into the data to see if there is a misspelling somewhere or possibly an incorrect path to your file. It has nothing to do with timeouts or request lengths.

Answer 2

Do you have custom error pages configured? It might have been a server-side error which causes a redirect to a pre-configured error page which doesn't exist?