From this experience, I decided to get to an expert level of competence (is there an XBOX Live badge?)  I started a comprehensive lit review in the area, reading Professional JavaScript for Web Developers , the JavaScript Bible, JavaScript – the Good Parts, .  I also volunteered to help with the JQuery test team – working on add-ons with the QUnit tool and started some work on the OWASP HTML 5 Cheat sheet project, incorporating best practices into an easy to use format.  I will be rewriting my game and incorporating this new knowledge as I progress.

Hopefully by this time next year, my web-fu will be that much better.

Seems that running the client proxy in a console app with transfermode set to streamed only lets me run a request 2x before it times out.  No issue if I run it buffered.  Google was not my friend … except for a few clues about memory and stream objects.

Thinking this may be a LOH issue or a resource that is not properly disposed of,  I took a look through the code for IDisposableness.  Found the innerChannel has a Disposable, so after closing my connection,  I call Disposable and then GC.Collect.  This “fixes” it – however I don’t know why the problem occurs (more of an instinct than knowledge) and I don’t know why what I did fixed it specifically and what are the side effects.  So I’ll be spending some time to understand it.  Not a fan of black magic and silver bullets.

There was no endpoint listening at https://www.domainname.com/servicename.svc that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details.

The inner exception is : The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.

Basically, this is a security measure to ensure that the client uses or explicitly circumvents the certificate check.  In order to explicitly circumvent this check, the client should use this code before calling any of the service functions:

A. This is the verbose method

1.  Code to conditional enforce validation check (we added this to a static utility class):

public static bool ValidateRemoteCertificate( object sender,

X509Certificate certificate, 

X509Chain chain, 

SslPolicyErrors policyErrors )
 {
    if (Convert.ToBoolean(

      ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["IgnoreSslErrors"]))
    {
      return true;
    }
      else
    {
      return policyErrors == SslPolicyErrors.None;
    }
  }

2.  Code to call ValidateRemoteCertificate in the handler for RemoteCertificateValidationCallback (we put this code in our test fixtures).  Put this code before your first call to the service:

//Ignore SSL cert validation issues if config is set 
ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += 

new System.Net.Security.RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(TestUtils.ValidateRemoteCertificate);

B. This is a more compact call, but if you need to call in multiple places, less manageable

1.  Put this code before your first call to the service:

//Trust any certificate 
System.Net.ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = 

((sender, certificate, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => true);

Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie ‘Munich’ was based. He
was Golda Meir’s bodyguard, and she appointed him to track down and bring to
justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and
killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.

In a lecture in New York City he shared information that EVERY American
needs to know — but that our government has not yet shared with us.

He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O’Reilly show on Fox News
stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O’Reilly
laughed, and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the
show. Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.

Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and
the Middle East) to the Bush Administration about 9/11, a month before it
occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and
target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has               �
                since hired him as a security consultant.

Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on
the U.S. will occur within the next few months.

Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and
hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down
quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke — that we have
been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are
truly effective.

For example:

1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new
explosives are made of plastic..

2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because
of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried
to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can’t bring liquids on board. He
says he’s waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his
underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked!
Every strategy we have is reactionary.

3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.

Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they
will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are
checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of
explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to
watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink,
and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel,
security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.

Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will
involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups
of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New
York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping
malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as, rural America
this time. The interlands (Wyoming, Montana, etc.).

The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the
country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities,
including rural areas.

Aviv says terrorists won’t need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger
cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can simply
valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.

Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that
our U. S. Government does not want to ‘alarm American citizens’ with the
facts. The world is quickly going to become ‘a different place’, and issues
like ‘global warming’ and political correctness will become totally
irrelevant.

On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don’t have to be concerned
about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will
not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line
approach. It’s cheap, it’s easy, it’s effective; and they have an infinite
abundance of young militants more than willing to ‘meet their destiny’.

He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America  should be
most concerned, will not be coming from abroad.  But will be, instead,
‘homegrown’, having attended and been educated in our own schools and
universities right here in the U.S. He says to look for ‘students’ who
frequently travel back and forth to the  Middle East. These young terrorists
will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully
understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won’t
know/understand a thing about them.

Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the
terrorist threats we will inevitably face.  America still has only a handful
of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv
says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.

So, what can America do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective,
Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for
intelligence. We need to, instead, follow Israel’s, Ireland’s and England’s
hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration
perspective as well as to pay attention to, and trust ‘aware’ citizens to
help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U.
S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, ‘like babies’. Our
government thinks we ‘can’t handle the truth’ and are concerned that we’ll
panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a
deadly mistake.

Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing
an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The
results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In
fact, in Chicago, someone tried to steal the briefcase!

In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well ‘trained’ that
an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who
know to publicly shout, ‘Unattended Bag!’ The area would be quickly & calmly
cleared by the citizens themselves.

Unfortunately, America  hasn’t been yet ‘hurt enough’ by terrorism for their
government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the
government to understand that it’s their citizens who are, inevitably, the
best first-line of defense against terrorism.
Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America
who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were ‘lost’ without
parents being able to pick them up, and                              �
about our schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students
until parents could get there. (In New York City, this was days, in some
cases!)
He stresses the importance of having a plan, that’s agreed upon within your
family, of how to respond in the event of a terrorist emergency. He urges
parents to contact their children’s schools and demand that the schools too,
develop plans of actions, just as they do in Israel.

Does your family know what to do if you can’t contact one another by phone?
Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan
that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.

Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan, that in the event
of another terrorist
attack, EVERYONE’s ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., will
immediately be cut-off, as this is the preferred communication source used
by                                  terrorists and is often the way that
their bombs are detonated.

How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak
to each other? You need to have a plan.

If you understand, and believe what you have just read, then you must feel
compelled to send this to every concerned parent, guardian, grandparents,
uncles, aunts, whomever. Don’t stop there. In addition to sharing this via
e-mail, contact and discuss this information with whomever it makes sense
to. Make contingency plans with those you care about. Better that you
have plans in place, and never have to use them, then to have no plans in
place, and find you needed them.
If you choose not to share this, or not to have a plan in place, and nothing
ever occurs — good for you! However, in the event  something does
happen, and even moreso, if it directly affects your loved ones, then this
e-mail will haunt you forever.
Telling yourself after the fact, “I should have sent this to so and so, but
deleted it as so much trash from old Bill Jones, plus, I just didn’t believe
it”, will not change anything. You were alerted, had the chance to do
something, and instead of erring on the side of caution, you chose to
disregard, if nothing else, a sensible, valuable warning.

Molly going for the camera