How to configure basicHttpBinding for WCF service - wcf-binding

Question

I have a WCF service that I'm trying to get to work with wcf, old soap and plain xml. The service is called TestService.svc and the configuration looks like this:
<system.serviceModel>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="TestServiceBehavior">
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
<endpointBehaviors>
<behavior name="poxBehavior">
<webHttp/>
</behavior>
</endpointBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<services>
<service behaviorConfiguration="TestServiceBehavior" name="TestService">
<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="ITestService">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost"/>
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
<endpoint address="soap" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="ITestService"/>
<endpoint address="xml" binding="webHttpBinding" behaviorConfiguration="poxBehavior" contract="ITestService"/>
</service>
</services>
</system.serviceModel>
I got this code from this other question:
REST / SOAP endpoints for a WCF service
Now, the XML webHttpBinding seems to work well, but the wsHttpBinding and basicHttpBinding does not work very well.
I can browser to the service using:
http://localhost:8295/WCFTest/TestService.svc
I can also use that endpoint to add a service reference in an asp.net web site project and attempt to consume the service, but when I create the client:
TestService.TestServiceClient mytest = new TestService.TestServiceClient();
It says to specify an endpoint due to multiple endpoints. I guess due to having both wsHttp and basicHttp? How do I specify the endpoint here?
Next I try to consume the basicHttpBinding endpoint by adding a Web Reference (not service reference) to a .net 2.0 web site. At this point I'm not able to add the reference and receive an error 400.
So next I remove the wsHttp binding and am able to add the web reference and consume the service via a .net 2.0 client.
How do I configure it so that I can use wsHttpBinding for clients that can consume normal WCF services, basicHttpBinding for clients that can only consume older non-WCF SOAP requests and still have webHttpBinding available for clients that want to consume plain xml?

Answer 1

The person who posted this link (http://www.codemeit.com/wcf/wcf-restful-pox-json-and-soap-coexist.html) appears to be correct. But since this question remains unanswered, I'll elaborate a bit.
If you haven't tried it, I will mention first that nowhere in your configuration do you specify an actual address for the client service to connect to.
<service behaviorConfiguration="TestServiceBehavior" name="TestService">
<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="ITestService">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost"/>
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
<endpoint address="soap" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="ITestService"/>
<endpoint address="xml" binding="webHttpBinding" behaviorConfiguration="poxBehavior" contract="ITestService"/>
</service>
Your first endpoint has
<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="ITestService">
Based on documentation on MSDN (found here) and the link above, it appears that you are missing this in your service configuration
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<!-- note, choose an available port-->
<add baseAddress="http://localhost:8295/WCFTest/TestService" />
</baseAddresses>
</host>
Adding that would make your service configuration look like this
<service behaviorConfiguration="TestServiceBehavior" name="TestService">
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<!-- note, choose an available port-->
<add baseAddress="http://localhost:81/TestService" />
</baseAddresses>
</host>
<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="ITestService">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost"/>
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
<endpoint address="soap" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="ITestService"/>
<endpoint address="xml" binding="webHttpBinding" behaviorConfiguration="poxBehavior" contract="ITestService"/>
</service>
Adding that section will provide the address to use, while the specific endpoints will then use addresses relative to the base address provided.