sendin 16meg images over soap

Hello,

I'm writing an image conversion web service. the idea is that the client can either:

A) send up an image to be converted to a different format and then sent back
B) request an image held on the webservies server, which is then sent down to the client in the requested format.

Both of these functionality work, but not for big files.

If i try A) with a 16.5mb tif then i get the following exception

Code:

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'DefaultDomain': Loaded 'c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\mscorlib.dll', No symbols loaded.
'BBWSC': Loaded 'C:\DEV\BBWSC\BBWSC\bin\Debug\BBWSC.exe', Symbols loaded.
'BBWSC.exe': Loaded 'c:\windows\assembly\gac\system.windows.forms\1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089\system.windows.forms.dll', No symbols loaded.
'BBWSC.exe': Loaded 'c:\windows\assembly\gac\system\1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089\system.dll', No symbols loaded.
'BBWSC.exe': Loaded 'c:\windows\assembly\gac\system.drawing\1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\system.drawing.dll', No symbols loaded.
'BBWSC.exe': Loaded 'c:\windows\assembly\gac\system.web.services\1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\system.web.services.dll', No symbols loaded.
'BBWSC.exe': Loaded 'c:\windows\assembly\gac\system.xml\1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089\system.xml.dll', No symbols loaded.
'BBWSC.exe': Loaded 'c:\windows\assembly\gac\system.web\1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\system.web.dll', No symbols loaded.
'BBWSC.exe': Loaded 'p85zc4aj', No symbols loaded.
An unhandled exception of type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException' occurred in system.web.services.dll

Additional information: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: There was an exception running the extensions specified in the config file. ---> System.Web.HttpException: Maximum request length exceeded.
  at System.Web.HttpRequest.GetEntireRawContent()
  at System.Web.HttpRequest.get_InputStream()
  at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapServerProtocol.Initialize()
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapServerProtocol.Initialize()
  at System.Web.Services.Protocols.ServerProtocolFactory.Create(Type type, HttpContext context, HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, Boolean& abortProcessing)

The program '[3128] BBWSC.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

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I've done a quick google and one suggestion i've seen is to alter the request limit in the web service. but i'm not sure what to

There was an exception running the extensions specified in the config file. ---> System.Web.HttpException: Maximum request length exceeded.

That says to adjust it in the config file. Have you looked that up?

Here, try this:

In the Web.config file, override the value of maxRequestLength for the application. For example, the following entry in Web.config allows files that are less than or equal to 8 megabytes (MB) to be uploaded:

<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="8192" />



Which I found at this site:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q295626

hmm cheers for the tip

I added that element in the web.config. rebuilt and tried to send a tif under 8 meg and it gave the same error.

which is annoying. all i want to do is send images around the 16 meg size.

strangely i've noticed that whilst if i send a 16 meg image to the service it errors BUT if i request a 16meg image from the server then it send it to the client fine.

One thing i was thinking is that, is it pointless setting the web.config to take a biiger file whilst the machine.config is still limited. which one takes precedence?

The web.config will take precedence.