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. > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > > http://faith.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
