When trying to update the web reference to a deployed asp.net webservice from a windows forms app, I get an error.
Unable to download following files from .
https://webserver/webservices/myservice.asmx?wsdl
For some reason it is looking at a host called webserver, but that isn't what it needs to look for for the WSDL. It needs to look at the domain name that I put in for the web service reference to begin with. I suppose I have a problem in IIS.
What can I do to fix this?
i really doubt that there is a problem with the IIS, i would suggest you to remove the reference to webservice from your windows app and give the correct URL of the webservice once again.
also, accessing webservices over HTTPS brings in has its own share separate glitches so i would suggest that you try without HTTPS first, get it working and then go with the HTTPS.
It sounds like you need to configure server bindings in IIS, specifically host header value, for https. In IIS 6, you can't do this via the IIS manager UI. You will need to run cscript adsutil.vbs. Take a look Configuring Server Bindings for SSL Host Headers (IIS 6.0).
Can you try using wsdl.exe to generate the proxy class for the same url?
wsdl /out:myProxyClass.cs https://<server>/webservices/myservice.asmx?wsdl
Following Gulzar's advice, I used wsdl.exe to generate the class, then went into the class and changed the server's local hostname to the internet accessible hostname.
BRILLIANT!
However, in the future I wont be able to just right click the web reference in my project and choose UPDATE SOLUTION. BUT WHO GIVES A CHEESE WHIZ?
We had a VS 2003 1.1 web service, and could not connect with the wsdl definition failing to load.
Turns out the problem was a relative addressed Uri. I took two days to figure this out.
BAD: [ WebService (Namespace = "http://../MyWebService.com/"]
GOOD: [ WebService (Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/"]
verify the default namespace is an absolute address.
For more info visit: http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl
Hope this helps