WSE 2.0 TP Disappointment

I spent some time with the WSE 2.0 Technology Preview today. After going through the sparse(!) documentation I had some hope that I could register an HTTP endpoint and listen with a SoapReceiver ... only to get a NotSupportedException when I try to register the receiver with the following message:

 Listening on the HTTP or HTTPS transports is not a supported operation.

Sounds like WSE 2.0 only supports sending via HTTP. Receiving only works with TCP and in-proc. I wonder if someone@microsoft would tell me if this will change once WSE 2.0 goes final or if I have to wait until some other time until I get WSE over HTTP without IIS.

Maybe if I hacked the HttpChannel in .NET Remoting ... now that I discovered how to customize the remoting message format.

For now it's back to hooking WSE into IIS though.

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