I guess I better have a method exposed on my web
service that the client can call to ask about previous
requests or maybe retry the same request X times
before giving up. Anyway, I'll need to do something on
the client end. At least the client will get a SOAP
Fault indicating some sort of error happened. Thanks.

--- Scott Nichol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is no way for the service to know that a
> particular response has
> been successfully returned to the client.
> 
> Note that even if the servlet writes all the output
> to the response
> stream without error, it cannot be certain that the
> client application
> receives it.  In fact, I doubt you can even be sure
> that the data has
> made it past the Web server.  The stream the servlet
> writes to is
> presumably read by the Web server, which in turn
> writes to the client
> (or, for that matter, some proxy the client request
> has passed through).
> Further, the lack of an error may not even mean the
> Web server has
> received the data.  It probably just indicates that
> the TCP/IP stack has
> received the data on behalf of the Web server.
> 
> Scott Nichol
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wyn Easton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 4:21 PM
> Subject: Catching a comm error
> 
> 
> > Hello:
> >
> > This has probably been answered before. If there
> is
> > something in an archive, please point me there and
> > I'll read it.
> >
> > I was wondering what happens if the SOAP response
> > never gets back to the client that invoked the
> SOAP
> > Call. In other words, the Java method that the
> SOAP
> > RPC router called returns, but the SOAP servlet
> never
> > gets to send the reply to the client. The client
> would
> > get a SOAP Fault, but does the service somehow get
> > informed that the client never got what was
> intended
> > to be returned? Can the web service register with
> the
> > SOAP servlet to be informed when the reply was not
> > returned to the client.
> > Thanks for your input.
> >
> >
> >
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