web services

hi,
i need to check the availability of my web service...
how can i do that.
i dont want to call any of the methods present in web service to test
availability..
i just want to ping to the web service...how can i do that...do a http get of the service, it should return the wsdl (which is
discovered by reflection). you could also add a ping method that did
more testing.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

AVL wrote:

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hi,
i need to check the availability of my web service...
how can i do that.
i dont want to call any of the methods present in web service to test
availability..
i just want to ping to the web service...how can i do that...
>

Probably a HEAD request is the one that will return the least amount of
indication and still show that the service ASMX page is available.
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"AVL" wrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

hi,
i need to check the availability of my web service...
how can i do that.
i dont want to call any of the methods present in web service to test
availability..
i just want to ping to the web service...how can i do that...
>

Hi,

Peter Bromberg [C# MVP] wrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

Probably a HEAD request is the one that will return the least amount of
indication and still show that the service ASMX page is available.
-- Peter

I did an example of that some time ago for the JavaScript newsgroup:

http://www.galasoft-lb.ch/myjavascr...e/check-url.txt
demo here:
http://www.galasoft-lb.ch/myjavascript/IsUrlActive/
HTH,
Laurent
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Hi again,

Laurent Bugnion, MVP wrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

Hi,
>
Peter Bromberg [C# MVP] wrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

>Probably a HEAD request is the one that will return the least amount
>of indication and still show that the service ASMX page is available.
>-- Peter

>
I did an example of that some time ago for the JavaScript newsgroup:
>
http://www.galasoft-lb.ch/myjavascr...e/check-url.txt
>
demo here:
http://www.galasoft-lb.ch/myjavascript/IsUrlActive/

Sorry, try rather that one:
http://www.galasoft.ch/myjavascript/IsUrlActive/
XmlHttpRequest can only ping the domain of origin for security reason.
galasoft-lb.ch and galasoft.ch are both pointing to the same server, BUT
the client doesn't know this, and throws an error when galasoft-lb.ch
tries to ping galasoft.ch...

Greetings,
Laurent
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