Question

I have a web server which is acting as a SOAP client to communicate with a third party SOAP server. My client is implemented in PHP using php::soapclient.

What is the best way to verify the SOAP server is functioning so I can provide the client browser with the site otherwise if if the SOAP server is down or not responding inform the user that the service is currently not available?

The system essentially provides a mashup of the third party services offered by using SOAP client/server communication to display data to the browser and let the users interact with the third party system.

Answer 1

well… once i worked with a php soap server and a php soap client. I think that when the client calls the service, it passes through the wsdl and if there’s a problem during the conection (or even the execution) server side, the response of the client will be a SoapFault object.. id di something like

    $resp = $this->client->__soapCall($serviceName,$serviceParams);
    if (get_class($resp)=="SoapFault"){
         throw new Exception("Webservice error - Message: ".$resp->faultstring);
    }