WCF endpoint address, default still available after specifying an address

Question

Hi Guys

These are my endpoints

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endpoint name="rest" address="" binding="webHttpBinding" behaviorConfiguration="poxBehavior" contract="IActionService"

endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"

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which makes the service available at /here

when I change the address to [say] 'rest'

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endpoint name="rest" address="rest" binding="webHttpBinding" behaviorConfiguration="poxBehavior" contract="IActionService" endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"

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the service is then available at /rest/here.

which makes sense, but it is also available from the original address of /here

I thought that the original address would not exist as I have set the address to 'rest'.

What am I doing wrong or misunderstanding?

Cheers

Answer 1

What defines your base address of /here ? Do you have a <host> section with <baseAddress> entries in it?

What do you mean by "still available" from the original address? Requests going there still return valid results?? Have you reset IIS after this config change??