C# SOAP with a custom URL.

Question

Okay, simple situation: I'm writing a simple console application which connects to a SOAP web service. I've imported a SOAP Service reference and as a result, my application has a default endpoint build into it's app.config file.

The web service, however, can run on multiple servers and the URL to the proper web service is passed through the commandline parameters of my application. I can read the URL, but how do I connect the web service to this custom URL?

(It should be very simple, in my opinion. It's something I'm overlooking.)

Answer 1

Is this using an auto-generated class deriving from SoapHttpClientProtocol? If so, just set the Url property when you create an instance of the class.

Answer 2

As Jon said, you set the Url, as in:

Namespace.ClassName nwe = new Namespace.ClassName();
nwe.Url = "http://localhost/MyURL/site.asmx";

Answer 3

Well, .NET can provide some very useless error messages sometimes. In IIS, the service was configured to AutoDetect cookieless mode. As a result, I had to append "?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1" to the URL. Although that would fix the problem, it was just easier to go to the IIS console, open the properties of the service, go to the ASP.NET tab page, click the "Edit configuration" button, to to "State Management" in the newly popped up screen and change "Cookieless mode" into something other than "AutoDetect"...

Excuse me. Dumb error. Am going to hit myself on the head a few times for this. ;-)