C# – HttpClient POST to WCF returns 400 Bad Request

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I have a WCF Service self-hosted which exposes a Web POST method with the following signature:

[ServiceContract]
public interface IPublisherService
{
    [OperationContract]
    [WebInvoke(UriTemplate = "Send", Method = "POST")]
    void SendMessage(string message);
}

If I send a request using Fiddler with the following structure (http://localhost:8080/Publisher/Send):

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WCF returns 200 OK with the response correctly deserialized into JSON:

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But when I try to use HttpClient from a C# Console Application, I always get back a 400 Bad Request without any reason.
This is the request:

using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient())
{
    var content = new StringContent(this.view.Message);
    content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("Application/Json");
    var response = client.PostAsync(
        new Uri("http://localhost:8080/Publisher/Send"), 
        content);
    var result = response.Result;
    this.view.Message = result.ToString();
}

And the response is always 400, doesn't matter if I use client.PostAsync or clint.SendAsync.

StatusCode: 400, ReasonPhrase: 'Bad Request', Version: 1.1, Content: System.Net.Http.StreamContent, Headers:
{
  Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:41:55 GMT
  Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
  Content-Length: 1647
  Content-Type: text/html
}

Best Answer

I don't know if it make sense but the answer is my string content is not properly formatted. I have changed the request using Newtonsoft.Json and now it works:

using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient())
{                
    var request = new StringContent(
        JsonConvert.SerializeObject(this.view.Message), 
        Encoding.UTF8, 
        "application/json");
    var response = client.PostAsync(
        new Uri("http://localhost:8080/Publisher/Send"), 
        request);
    var result = response.Result;
    view.Message = result.ToString();
}
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