2.0 Web Service Proxy to WCF Service

Question

We have a 2.0 Web Service proxy generated for a WCF Service. This service required Basic authentication, but periodically we experience problems that the proxy cannot connect to the Server.

The application is installed on a cluster and referencing a cluster that holds the WCF Service.

Anyone experience this problem already?

Answer 1

Could be that the service is only installed / working on one server in the cluster. Therefore, sometimes it works and sometimes it does not, depending on which machine you hit.

Answer 2

Apparantly it has to do with the setup of the environment. All the machines are virtual and the errors occurs depending on the host they are running on. I also was able to reproduce it with the WCF Proxy as well by switching on/off VM's.

thanks for the answers

Answer 3

You may want to consider deploying an ASMX service backed by the WCF service class. This gives you a classic XML webservices facade to work with.