WCF Error : Manual addressing is enabled on this factory, so all messages sent must be pre-addressed.

Question

First off, I'd like to thank those who have helped me out with this WCF connectivity, as it's fairly new to me.

I've got a hosted WCF service that I created a custom factory for, so that this would work with multiple host headers:

/// <summary>
/// Required for hosting where multiple host headers are present
/// </summary>
public class MultipleHostServiceFactory : ServiceHostFactory
{
    protected override ServiceHost CreateServiceHost(Type serviceType, Uri[] baseAddresses)
    {
        List<Uri> addresses = new List<Uri>();
        addresses.Add(baseAddresses[0]);
        return base.CreateServiceHost(serviceType, addresses.ToArray());
    }
}

I'm pretty sure that my config files are now right, on both client and server (can be seen here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1794247/wcf-consumer-website-returning-the-address-property-on-channelfactory-endpoint-wa ).

The error I'm getting appears to be related to the factory:

Manual addressing is enabled on this factory, so all messages sent must be pre-addressed.

Line 113:
Line 114: public string GetData(int value) { Line 115: return base.Channel.GetData(value); Line 116: } Line 117:

The error occurs at line 115.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't think this necessarily has anything to do with your factory.

See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.channels.transportbindingelement.manualaddressing.aspx

or others among the first few Bing hits for "manualaddressing". It sounds like the binding being used is incompatible with some other portion of the stack/messaging logic.

Answer 2

So this has finally come to an end!

Brian - thanks for your guidance on this. The bindings were mis-aligned b/t the client and server, and I finally ended up going with the following in both:

  <basicHttpBinding>
    <binding name="TransportSecurity">
      <security mode="Transport">
        <transport clientCredentialType="None"/>
      </security>
    </binding>
  </basicHttpBinding>

... and setting their endpoint binding and bindingConfiguration attributes accordingly:

   <endpoint binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="TransportSecurity"
    contract="ServiceReference1.IService" 
    name="WebHttpBinding_IService" 
    address="https://mysslserver.com/Service.svc" />

Since this is relatively new turf for me, just the explanation of why those errors were popping up lead me in the right direction :).

Finally I can go back to writing code instead of flipping switches in config files! :)

Thanks!

Answer 3

I experienced this error and the problem was resolved by adding the WebHttpBehavior (line 2 below):

var factory = new ChannelFactory<IService>(new WebHttpBinding(), uri);
factory.Endpoint.Behaviors.Add(new WebHttpBehavior());
var proxy = factory.CreateChannel();