I second the other commenter suggesting you should try to rip off the WCF bandaid and go to a RESTful API as soon as you can. It sounds scary but after the one-

I second the other commenter suggesting you should try to rip off the WCF bandaid and go to a RESTful API as soon as you can. It sounds scary but after the one-time pain of migration we've had way fewer "magic, black box" errors that require insane investigations and hacks.