>>>Are you trying to consume the web service from behind a firewall? If so that may be your problem. There are a few of us here who are experincing similiar problems and I'm still looking for a solution ... that will appease our network security people.
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>>I am behind a firewall, however I am attempting to serve and consume the service on the same machine for now so the firewall shouldn't prove to be a problem.
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>That may not be the case. If the pointer to your WebService is a local IP (such as 127.0.0.1) then the most likely is that you're not going through your firewall and proxy; if, on the other hand, you're using a publicly exposed IP address or its DNS name and they're not in the bypass list of your proxy settings, then you are.
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>bye


I was useing http://localhost, but 127.0.0.1 also returns the same error. thanks for the suggestions tho, eventually one of these will work.