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A web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.

A web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.

Typically, the service exposes an interface, often defined using WSDL (Web Service Definition Language), for users to be able to execute some function on the system that provides the service.

There are two broad types of web services:

  1. Arbitrary Web Services - in which the system exposes arbitrary operations
  2. REST-compliant Web Services - in which the primary purpose of the service is to manipulate representations of Web resources using a uniform set of stateless operations.

Messages can be passed between the service and it's clients in a variety of formats. Some of the most common are:

  • JSON-RPC
  • JSON-WSP
  • XML-RPC
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Are there performance impacts to using gzip for web services?

I have a very typical scenario: browser -> web server -> web service I've seen lots of articles/documentation about the benefit of compressing the data sent from the web server to the browser to save bandwidth, but I'm wondering if there are similar…
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How to buy a X.509 certificate for signing digital payloads

I am in a situation where my software is calling a third party web service (SOAP) and using WS-Security for client authentication using a client certificate and digital signing of the message contents. The vendor requires that the certificate I…
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Scheduled task fails, but runs fine when triggered manually

We have a 2008 R2 server with a scheduled task that runs a .bat file which executes a call to a Java app. The task triggers just fine, but stops executing anything after it creates the log file. Here's the details on how it's set up: It runs on a…
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How can I track down the cause of a 400: Bad Request web service call to localhost?

This is on Windows Server 2003 Running IIS. I have an ASP.NET 2.0 website which is also hosting some web services. When the site makes a webservice call to itself (localhost), I get back a 404: Bad Request. I would like to see the actual request…
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IIS 7 Web service access

I am trying to debug a simple web service. I have IIS 7 installed on my development machine (Windows 7), and have installed the web service. I can access it from my development machine, but not from any other machine in the local network.I opened…
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Building a server farm - Should I use cheap or expensive hardware?

I'm looking to build a server farm for a web business, I will need front end webservice servers and a common NAS file server backend. Some companies choose to buy the fastest most reliable hardware which costs a premium. Other companies choose to…
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What is causing ntoskrnl aka the System process to continue accumulating handles

I have a server which is accumulating handles on the System process aka c:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. The handles go to 18,000 in one day and keep going forever up at that rate. The server is running Postgresql 9.0.3, asp.net web services which…
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Exchange Web Services causes transaction logs growth

I'm using EWS on an Exchange 2007 with basic authentication. I'm calling just the FindItems() method and the transaction log seem to grow alarmingly. On my test server I ran an endless loop calling FindItems() and the logs grew with 1 MB per 5-6…
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Open Source XML Firewalls?

Does anyone know of any open source XML firewalls that provide equivalent functionality to DataPower, Vordel, etc?
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Using Computer name in URL causes issues when connecting to Web Services

The set of applications I work on all access the same 8 or so web services that we have. These services and applications all reside on the same box and all use the computer name when trying to connect to the web service. For Example: If I have a…
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Predictive HTTP Caching

A bit of background I have ~150 scripts that directly or indirectly pull data from an IBM Cognos instance that I have no control over. I do not have access to the Cognos API, so the eventual source of all data for these scripts is simulating a web…
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How to properly configure IIS to have requests go to a web service 2 folders down

I'm moving an old .Net 2 web service from a Windows 2008 R2 server to a new Windows 2016 Datacenter server. It has something else set up on the Default Web Site, but I have created an additional one for the web service. (This is exactly the same…
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what are my options for hosting a WCF service

My company is building a system that will need to use user authentication and web services (WCF or ASMX whichever works, the differences are all confined to a tiny slice of code anyway) and our current hosting provider is somewhat "flaky". They are…
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Powershell and sharepoint and updatelistitems() exception

I've got an issue where I keep getting "Exception calling "UpdateListItems" with "2" argument(s): "Exception of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException' was thrown." whenever I call $service.updatelistitems($listname, $xml). …
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Monitor a web service hosted at http url

I am thinking of a strategies to monitor a web service hosted at http url. I want to be able to know if it is up or down. I am aware of polling but wondering if there are any other non obvious strategies.
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