Hi Grover
Before answering your questions, I will add a new development:
yesterday we switched our soap communication method to use Axis 1.4
(Axis 1) instead of Axis2 1.4.1. Making this change did resolve the
issue and PFP does not break Axis 1 communication. At this point we
are satisfied with this solution and have decided to move forward with
Axis 1.
Thats good to hear!
One other thing I should mention is that the soap server we are using
Axis to communicate with requires basic authentication to connect, so
simple telnet commands do get connection refused.
Hmm.. that should not happen, since a basic auth failure (which has a
HTTP response) is different from a connection refused - which means that
the remote host did not accept the message over the selected port.
However, ngrep does show packets going to and from xyz.com when
attempting the telnet connection, even when we are in the broken
communication state.
I am not much familiar with ngrep.. but if communication takes place,
that means you have network level connectivity. What would be
interesting to see is the output of tcpdump for the manual telnet vs the
Axis2 connection attempt.. anyway, leave that to the next time you want
to revisit Axis2
cheers
asankha
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Asankha C. Perera
http://adroitlogic.org
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