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Asked: 2026-05-23T01:49:46+00:00

I am using SOAP in C# .Net 3.5 to consume a web service, from

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I am using SOAP in C# .Net 3.5 to consume a web service, from a video game company. I am having lots of SOAP Exceptions with the error “Operation Timed Out”

While one process is timing out, others fly by with no problems. I would like to rule out a problem on my end, but I have no idea where to begin. My timeout is 5 minutes. For every 5,000 requests, maybe 500 fail.

Anyone have some advice for diagnosing web services failures? The web service owner will probably give no support to helping me on this, as it’s a free service.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve had to do a lot of debugging connecting to a SOAP Service using PHP and timeouts are the worst problem. Normally the problem is the ‘client’ doesn’t have a high enough timeout and bombs after something like 30s.

    I test making the calls using SoapUI. I keep using a higher client-side timeout using that until I find something that works. Once I find that out I use the newly found time to my client and re-test.

    Your only solution may be to make sure your ‘clients’ have a high enough timeout that will work for everything. 5 minutes should be fine for most of your server-side timeouts.

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