Web service error

[Davie]

I've got a rather strange problem with accessing web services. This is on
the compact framework with a smartphone app. When i run the application
with my smartphone plugged into my computer the web service is accessed
correctly, (I should point out that this is a proper hosted web service and
not on my localhost). When I unplug the smartphone and run it on my GPRS
connection I have some problems.

I get the following error:

"Server found request content type to be 'text/html'; charset =
Windows-1252', but expected 'text/xml' "

Could this be something to do with the connection time? or is there a
connection limit? I should also point out that the GPRS works fine using
Outlook and all other internet apps on the phone.

I found the following link,
http://blogs.msdn.com/davidklinems/archive/category/5793.aspx but I
wondered if anyone at Microsoft could tell me what's wrong?

Regards,
Davie.

 

[Davie]

http://www.techietwo.com/detail-9961147.html

I've also found this via a web search. As with mine, it works on a
smartphone via passthrough and it works perfectly on a desktop winforms app.
Surely this isn't a malformed soap request?

 

[[MSFT]]

Hello Davie,

Normally, when we call a web service and it reutrns error like:

"Server found request content type to be 'text/html'; charset =
Windows-1252', but expected 'text/xml' "

It means the Server side find client send a incorrect soap message. I
suggest you may install some trace tool to check the soap message. This let
us see the actual message sent by client and narrow down the problem.

For such a trace tool, you can install SOAP toolkit 3.0:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ba611554-5943-444c-
b53c-c0a450b7013c&displaylang=en

You can start the Trace utility on server and call the web side via your
smart phone. Then check the log info in Trace utility to see what happened.

Luke

 

[Davie]

For some reason this is working now, (i've not changed anything). The web
services are downloading quite a large amount of data could it be due to
this?

 

[[MSFT]]

I suspect the problem is related to the connection, when it is not stable
and downloading a large amount of data, It may cause such a problem. You
may give more test with large data downloading to see if it happened again.

Luke