How to enable webHttp connection in WCF?

Question

Hi,

I am developing a solution for transfering data from android phone to the server (written in C#/.NET).

I created a WCF service and testing with emulator everything worked fine. Then when I tried to login from mobile phone (connected to home wifi network) I got the following exception message:

org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to http://192.168.1.5:8000 refused

I would really appreciate if anyonecould give a look at the config file and the interface and give any advice on how to enable connection.

web.config:

<configuration>
<system.web>
 <compilation debug="true"/>
    </system.web>
<system.serviceModel>
 <bindings>


<webHttpBinding>
<binding name="DefaultBinding" allowCookies="true" bypassProxyOnLocal="true" />


</webHttpBinding>


 </bindings>


<behaviors>


<endpointBehaviors>
<behavior name="RESTFriendly">
  <webHttp/>
</behavior>


</endpointBehaviors>


</behaviors>


<services>



<service name="RESTServer.LoginService">
<endpoint address="" behaviorConfiguration="RESTFriendly" binding="webHttpBinding"
 bindingConfiguration="DefaultBinding" contract="RESTServer.ILoginService" />


</service>


</services>


<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" />
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

Interface:

[ServiceContract()]
public interface ILoginService
{
    [WebGet(ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml, UriTemplate = "/username={username}&password={password}")]
    [OperationContract]
    Message Login(string username, string password);
}

Service implementation:

public class LoginService : ILoginService
{
    public Message Login(string username, string password)
    {
        Message message = new Message();
        SQLWorks sqlWorks = new SQLWorks();
        string strSession = sqlWorks.Login(username, password);
        string strMessage;
        message.Session = strSession;
        if(strSession == "")
        {
            strMessage = "Login failed! Please check your username/password!";
        }
        else
        {
            strMessage = "Login Successful";
        }
        message.ErrorMessage = strMessage;
        return message;
    }
}

Answer 1

In order to connect to your service, it needs to be hosted on a public web server. It looks like the address you're using 192.168.1.5:8000 is a home network address, which is not accessible from the outside world (a phone).

Answer 2

if you are using vista OS ,you have to add the address into your firewall

netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8000/ user=DOMAIN\user