>>>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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>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.

Even with localhost and 127.0.0.1 addresses you'll have to go through the proxy if you don't put them in its bypass list (I said that not using the proxy in this situation would be the most likely because when you have a web server in your own machine you'd normally put its local references in the proxy's explicit or implicit bypass lists). Anyway, unfortunately it was not a suggestion, 'just trying to clarify things out (not to great success, I admit).

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