Question

I have an HTTPS webserver on WCF hosted under IIS 7.5. I have set the SSL settings to require SSL and ignore client certificates.

When I try to add the web reference in Visual Studio, I get the following error. How do I fix this problem?

I can see that it’s trying to request ?disco using HTTP instead of HTTPS. I think this is the problem, but I am not sure how to address this.

The document at the url https://testserver/service1.svc?wsdl was not recognized as a known document type.
The error message from each known type may help you fix the problem:
– Report from ‘DISCO Document’ is ‘There was an error downloading ‘http://testserver/service1.svc?disco‘.’.
– The request failed with HTTP status 403: Forbidden.
– Report from ‘WSDL Document’ is ‘The document format is not recognized (the content type is ‘text/html; charset=UTF-8′).’.
– Report from ‘XML Schema’ is ‘The document format is not recognized (the content type is ‘text/html; charset=UTF-8′).’.
– Report from ‘https://testserver/service1.svc?wsdl‘ is ‘The document format is not recognized (the content type is ‘text/html; charset=UTF-8′).’.

Answer 1

I had to disable Require SSL to get it to work. I am not sure why disco goes to do an HTTP when the WSDL URL you provide is HTTPS.