Custom wsdlHelpGenerator + webroot = error

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Why are the smallest bugs in the .NET framework always the most disproportionately frustrating? Take the wsdlHelpGenerator element, for example. Sure, it seems straightforward enough; you want to replace the default crappy, random hash sorted list of Web Service methods with one that's (shock!) in alphabetical order. I know, it's crazy talk, but bear with me. So you'd...

This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/04/custom-wsdlhelpgenerator-webroot-error.html
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I was going to try to be glib and recommend a Response.Redirect, but I thought I’d better look it up first :slight_smile:

This looked important, but I don’t know whether it’s what you’re hitting (the file path bit):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/gngrfwsdlhelpgenerator.asp

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The value of href is a file path, not a URL. The file path can be relative or absolute. If it is relative, it is relative to the location of the configuration file.

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I can’t get any combination of path to work when the web service is running at root ( eg http://webservice.com/ ). I’ve tried “file.aspx”, “x”, “/file.aspx”, “\file.aspx”, “(full c drive path)\aspx.” and every other combination. It appears to be a pure bug based on running as root.

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Yep, looks that way :frowning:

Ladybug, here we come.

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you might try URL rewriting??? /whatever.asmx could be “rewritten” to /projName/whatever.asmx, though this doesn’t really fix the problem.