WebMessageEncodingBindingElement.ReaderQuotas Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.ServiceModel.Channels

Assembly:

System.ServiceModel.Web.dll

Gets constraints on the complexity of SOAP messages that can be processed by endpoints configured with this binding.

public:
 property System::Xml::XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas ^ ReaderQuotas { System::Xml::XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas ^ get(); };

public System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas ReaderQuotas { get; }

member this.ReaderQuotas : System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas

Public ReadOnly Property ReaderQuotas As XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas

Property Value

XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas

The XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas that specifies the complexity constraints on SOAP messages that are exchanged. The default values for these constraints are provided in the following Remarks section.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

The value set is null.

Remarks

The complexity constraints protect against a class of denial of service (DOS) attacks that attempt to use message complexity to tie up endpoint processing resources. The properties that express these constraints and their default values (in bytes) are as follows:

• MaxDepth = 32

• MaxStringContentLength = 8192

• MaxArrayLength = 16384

• MaxBytesPerRead = 4096

• MaxNameTableCharCount = 16384