title: How to find out WCF service binding timeout value on the server
body: <p>When making a web service request using SOAP you configure a binding like so</p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;basicHttpBinding&gt;
                  &lt;binding name="Secure_ApiService" sendTimeout="00:25:00"&gt;
                      &lt;security mode="Transport"&gt;
                          &lt;transport clientCredentialType="Basic" /&gt;
                      &lt;/security&gt;
                  &lt;/binding&gt;
              &lt;/basicHttpBinding&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>As we are only consuming this service we don't know what the sendTimeout is configured to on the Server and it is my understanding that if a API call takes longer than either the sendTimeout on the Server or Client then an error occurs.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to find out what the sendTimeout is configured to on the server side when you only know the endpoint of the service?</p>