WCF throws error intermittently for the first time whenever I access if after a long time

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WCF throws below error intermittently whenever I access the service for the first time in day or after long time.

"The server did not provide a meaningful reply; this might be caused by a contract mismatch, a premature session shutdown or an internal server error."

Otherwise, it works fine in every case. I am not able to understand why this error occurs? P.s : I have referred many threads and tried config changes,checked proxy mismatching, but none of them worked for me. please guide me otherwise I have to put retry option in the service

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Client config

<endpoint address="xxxxx" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="Binding1" contract="IService" name="BasicEndPoint" />

<binding name="Binding1" maxReceivedMessageSize="99999999"
closeTimeout="00:05:00" openTimeout="00:05:00"
sendTimeout="00:05:00" receiveTimeout="00:05:00" >
          <readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="99999999" />
          <security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">
          <transport clientCredentialType="Ntlm"/>
        <message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default"/>
      </security>
    </binding>
  </basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>


<binding name="BasicEndPoint" closeTimeout="00:03:00" openTimeout="00:03:00"
                receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:03:00" allowCookies="false"
                bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
                maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
                messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
                useDefaultWebProxy="true">
      <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
          maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
      <security mode="Transport">
        <transport clientCredentialType="Windows" proxyCredentialType="None"
            realm="" />
        <message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
      </security>
    </binding>

Service config:

 <binding name="Binding1" maxReceivedMessageSize="99999999">
      <readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="99999999" />
      <security mode="None">
      </security>
    </binding>

How are you hosting your WCF and what kind of biding are you using? — Teis Lindemark, Sep 08 '15 at 05:51
@TeisLindemark I have updated the question for you. once again I have tried almost all the binding settings provided in different threads but that not worked for me — Dirty Developer, Sep 09 '15 at 06:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

Okey, I have had a lot of strange error messages during the time I have been working with WCF services. What I learned from that is that they do not alwats make that much sense.

When that said, when you describe yur problem, it sounds like one issue I had with one of the WCF services I have worked with that used named pipes. That was a problem related to the activation. Then I had to refresh the service address in the browser then it worked fine. To solve that it was a permission issue.

Anouther thing that have been gining me error messages is that the namespace and contract to the service is correct in the web.config.

When I was googling your error message, there seems like some people get this have issues with enum in the service. I do not think that's your issue, but maybe... WCF catches exception " The server did not provide a meaningful reply.."

no enum in my case. yet checked namespace and contract but it seems to be other issue. — Dirty Developer, Sep 10 '15 at 12:04

WCF throws error intermittently for the first time whenever I access if after a long time

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