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Reputation: 3681

Should I use localhost in the endpoint address of a WCF service?

If I host a publicly available WCF web service in IIS, how should I configure the endpoint address? I think I can use either:

<endpoint address="http://localhost/MyService" ... />

or

<endpoint address="http://example.com/MyService" ... />

In both cases, a client on another machine must use the second option for its client binding.

If I use Visual Studio to create the client, both server bindings seem to work fine. However, I think I had trouble using new-webserviceproxy in Powershell with the first option.

Does it matter which one I use on the server?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4431

Answers (1)

CodeCaster
CodeCaster

Reputation: 151740

MSDN: Specifying an Endpoint Address:

you must use relative endpoint addresses for IIS-hosted service endpoints. Supplying a fully-qualified endpoint address can lead to errors in the deployment of the service. For more information, see Deploying an Internet Information Services-Hosted WCF Service.

From that link:

When hosted in IIS, endpoint addresses are always considered to be relative to the address of the .svc file that represents the service. For example, if the base address of a WCF service is http://localhost/Application1/MyService.svc with the following endpoint configuration.

<endpoint address="anotherEndpoint" .../>

This provides an endpoint that can be reached at http://localhost/Application1/MyService.svc/anotherEndpoint

Upvotes: 1

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