400 Bad request when trying to contact WCF service using XHR

Question

I'm making a WCF web service that will return a json object, but I keep getting a 400 bad request error when I try to make an AJAX call:

OPTIONS http://localhost:55658/WebServiceWrapper.svc/GetData?_=1318567254842&value=97            HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:55658
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Origin: http://localhost:3000
Access-Control-Request-Method: GET
Access-Control-Request-Headers: content-type

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: ASP.NET Development Server/10.0.0.0
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:40:55 GMT
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 0
Connection: Close

Here is my AJAX call:

$.ajax({
  contentType: 'application/json',
  url: 'http://localhost:55658/WebServiceWrapper.svc/GetData',
  dataType: 'json',
  data: {
    value: 97
  },
  success: function (data) {
    alert('success' + data);
  },
  error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
    alert('failure' + errorThrown);
  }
});

Here is my WCF service definition:

public class WebServiceWrapper : IWebServiceWrapper
{
    public object GetData(int value)
    {
        return new 
        {
            ReturnValue = string.Format("You entered: {0}", value)
        };
    }
}

And it's interface:

[ServiceContract]
public interface IWebServiceWrapper
{
    [OperationContract]
    object GetData(int value);
}

I know I've solved this problem before, but I can't remember what I had done before. Any help would be greatly appreciated as the hole I'm putting in the wall is just getting bigger and bigger.

Are you sure of the port number you use in the ajax call (55658)? The origin is reported as 3000. — Hans Keﬆing, Oct 14 '11 at 08:12

John Gathogo · Answer 1 · 2011-10-14T08:41:52.670

There a couple of things you may need to do (or check if you have done):

Your GetData OperationContract needs to be decorated with [WebGet] attribute.


    [WebGet]
    [OperationContract]
    object GetData(int value);

Your WebServiceWrapper class needs to be decorated with [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements] attribute (Add a reference to System.ServiceModel.Web for this to be available)


    [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
    public class WebServiceWrapper : IWebServiceWrapper

The return value from GetData operation will need to be wrapped. An easy way is to use a JavaScriptSerializer to serialize the object to json


    var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
    return serializer.Serialize(new
                                {
                                    ReturnValue = string.Format("You entered: {0}", value)
                                });

You need to make sure you are using a [webHttpBinding] in your endpoints (client and services)

<endpoint ... binding="webHttpBinding" ... />

I dont know if this next thing is mandatory, but you may need an endpoint behaviour that enables web script

<endpointBehaviors>
    <behavior name="[endpointBehaviorName]">
        <enableWebScript/>
    </behavior>
</endpointBehaviors>

You will obviously need to refer to this behavior configuration in your endpoint(s)

<endpoint ... behaviorConfiguration="[endpointBehaviorName]" ... />

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

Looking at your request you are making an OPTIONS request rather than a GET, which I think jQuery does automatically if you try to do a cross-site XHR request, see this question:

Why am I getting an OPTIONS request instead of a GET request?

I'm not even sure that your server supports the OPTIONS method, hence your 400 error.

Even different port numbers are considered cross-site requests, so you'd better make a proxy page on the actual web site that makes the HTTP request to your WCF Service.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 14 '11 at 08:51

You seem to be violating the same origin policy restriction. You cannot send cross domain AJAX requests. Your application is hosted on http://localhost:3000 and you are trying to send an AJAX request to http://localhost:55658. That's impossible. You can send AJAX requests only to http://localhost:3000. You could use JSONP to circumvent this restriction. And here's another article on MSDN.

400 Bad request when trying to contact WCF service using XHR

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