IIS 7.5 - WCF - 413 Request Entity Too Large (on https only, http works fine) [Answered]RSS

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  IIS 7.5 - WCF - 413 Request Entity Too Large (on https only, http works fine)

  Mar 06, 2017 05:58 AM|lindows|LINK

  hi all

  i have a wcf application which supports soap and json

  i have got it to support ssl *by ignoring the SSL cert* self sign for dev purposes

  I could post a file in json via the http but when i do the same using https i get 413 

  any ideas?

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  Re: IIS 7.5 - WCF - 413 Request Entity Too Large (on https only, http works fine)

  Mar 06, 2017 06:04 AM|lindows|LINK

  found the answer

  1. Launch “Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager”
  2. Select the site that you are hosting your web application under it.
  3. In the Features section, double click “Configuration Editor”
  4. Under “Section” select: system.webServer  then serverRuntime
  5. Modify the “uploadReadAheadSize” section to be like 20MB (the value there is in Bytes)
  6. Click Apply

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