major problem with web service on SOME machines

V

vader

i have a web service installed on various computers. some XP, some 2k. there is no rhyme or reason to which ones work and which ones don't. i get a "client response of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'. the client is connecting to the local machine. i made the directory with the web service having no security and 'everyone' has full control. i can't find what it is. i've reinstalled everything, nothing helps. this latest PC is a brand spanking new IBM box with no software but ours on it. Finally, with this machine, i can use the client to connect to a the same webservice on another PC and it works just fine. i can't connect to the webservice on that PC, however. any help? it's driving me nuts

here's the complete dump

System.InvalidOperationException: Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'
The request failed with the error message
-
<html><head><title>Server Unavailabl
</title></head><body><h1><font face=Verdana color=#ff3300>Server Application Unavailabl
</font></h1><p><font face=Verdana
The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable.&nbsp; Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web browser to retry your request
</p><p><b>Administrator Note
</b> An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be found in the system event log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover what caused this error to occur
</p></body></html
 
J

Jeremiah Johnson

Don't know if my comments will be help - maybe no more than a validation..

I do all of my development on a WinXP machine. On some days, I will get the error that you are referring to a dozen times; whereas, 5 out of 7 days, I don't get the error at all. In my case, the underlying problem is that a DLL I use in my web service is tied up in an existing process - don't know what process - so I can't recompile my new code. The lock seems to be related to VS.NET in my case, because I can _usually_ restart VS.NET and get on my way

The DLL that won't release is always log4net.dll, so I figure that maybe there is some locking issue in the DLL and I will try to track it down at some point in the future

I hope that this information is helpful to you somehow..

- jeremiah
 
F

FloridaUFGator

Did you get a resolution to this? We are having the same problem. It just started showing up. It has been working fine for a few months but all of the sudden we get this error.
 

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