Strange issue while hosting WCF in Windows Server 2003 standard edition

Question

Hi All,

I have hosted WCF in Windows Server 2003 standard edition.

If there is not much process while fetching data from service it returns expected result, but if there is much processing involved, it comes with 504 error(The server didn't return a response for this request). I am using custom binding which is as follows to return JSONP data

The most irritating thing is when I host same application on Windows server 2003 enterprise edition, It works smoothly.

I am dying to make it work on standard edition.

I will be very grateful if any one can help me to make it work.

Answer 1

The 504 error denotes a timeout. As the processing is high, the server process might be returning the result beyond the allowed timeout. Can you share your timeout settings? Or review the settings and set them properly.

Set your timeouts like:

   <bindings>
     <basicHttpBinding>
       <binding name="basicHTTP" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
            openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:01:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"/>
     </basicHttpBinding>
   </bindings>

You can further see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733051.aspx