WSDualHttpBinding.MaxReceivedMessageSize Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.ServiceModel

Assembly:

System.ServiceModel.dll

Gets or sets the maximum size, in bytes, for a message that can be received on a channel configured with this binding.

public:
 property long MaxReceivedMessageSize { long get(); void set(long value); };

public long MaxReceivedMessageSize { get; set; }

member this.MaxReceivedMessageSize : int64 with get, set

Public Property MaxReceivedMessageSize As Long

Property Value

Int64

The maximum size, in bytes, for a message that is processed by the binding. The default value is 65,536 bytes.

Exceptions

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The value is less than zero.

Examples

The following example shows how to get the MaxReceivedMessageSize property.

long maxReceivedMessageSize = binding.MaxReceivedMessageSize;

Dim maxReceivedMessageSize As Long = binding.MaxReceivedMessageSize

Remarks

The size of the messages that can be received on the wire by services using the WSDualHttpBinding is bounded by the amount of memory allocated for each message. This bound on message size is intended to limit exposure to DOS-style attacks.

Note that the settings for MaxBufferPoolSize and MaxReceivedMessageSize are local behavioral settings. This means that they are not transmitted to other endpoints in metadata. If you generate a proxy to a service with a maximum message size of 2GB from metadata, the proxy still has a default value 64K. This leaves control of the appropriate bounds for message and message buffer size in the scope of local administrators.