Zuker On Foundations

WCF 4 Routing Service – Supported Bindings

For starters, I had to examine if the router service supports all the common bindings we’ve been using in our enterprise.

The following worked just fine:

1. BasicHttp
2. Http Protocol, Text Encoding and Soap12 Message Version (part of the WS-I Basic Profile)
3. WsHttp
   1. Standard
   2. Reliable Session (instead for O/W – more at the next post)
4. NetTcp
   1. Standard
   2. Reliable Session

For the relevant bindings above, sessionful contracts were preserved and transactions were propagated – as long as I configured everything correctly.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get WebHttp (Implementing RESTful services) to work through the router service, I didn’t dive into all the bits and bytes so perhaps there is a way to somehow make it work but I didn’t find a way to do that so far. This is the first point of failure.

Concluding failure points:

1. WebHttp isn’t supported as much as I could tell

Published Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:20 PM by Amir Zuker