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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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What is causing my web service call to timeout?

The web server is Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6. The web service is an ASMX running in .NET 4.0. When calling the web service as the domain user named 'ALBERT' everything works successfully. POST…
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Splitting functionality on a server

Hi I was wondering the best way to setup my current application. Here is the general rundown. I have a phone application that uploads and downloads photos from a vps that will store the files statically on it. The phone application does a webrequest…
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How can I connect to a database from another computer?

Hi all I'm trying to access a database that is hosted in a laptop "database_server" from my android device which is both connected to the same network. The project is running at www.database_server:8000/ I've entered the ip: 192.168.1.1 (of my…
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What techniques are recommended to prevent a MITM attack when using a public/private key pairs (RSA)?

I currently have a group of web-services exposing interfaces to a variety of different client types and roles. Authentication is handled through a public/private key pairs (RSA) only to verify the URL as signature in the HTTP Header. At this time…
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Reasonable Location to Install Web Service on Server

Firstly, I'm a software developer and not qualified as any kind of system or server expert so I'm looking for advice in order to help me prevent faults on our server. I've written a modular system to carry out certain tasks for us autonomously to…
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Where do I find error logs for Exchange 2010 Web Services

Probably a simple question, but I really can't find the answer on Google. We are creating an application that talks to Exchange Web Services. We have some messages working, but certain other requests just return a 500 error. I have been unable to…
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What does this IIS error log mean?

I'm using Debug Diagnostic Tool, trying to understand why around 5% of the requests that are sent to my webservice just crash, without necessarily throw any error inside my application. One of the errors this tool took is below. Can anyone here…
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“NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON” error in Windows 7 (ASP.NET & Web Service)

I have an asp.net web app which works fine in Windows XP machine in a domain. I am porting it to a Windows 7 stand alone machine. The app uses a web service which makes a call to sql server. The web server (IIS 7.5) and SQL Server are on the same…
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Configure IIS7.5 to allow calls to asmx web services

I migrated a site from IIS6 to Windows Server 2008 R2 IIS7.5. It has an asmx web service, which is working fine locally, but returns this 500 error when called from another machine: Request format is unrecognized for URL unexpectedly ending in…
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What steps do I need to perform to host a ASP.NET web service publicly?

I am really a programmer and new to web development field. I am tasked with creating a web service which must be publicly hosted (on internet) and which one of your application will use when needed. I have developed the web service (using…
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Can NGINX call another service before dispatching

We are using NGINX as a reverse proxy, it dispatches the calls from outside to our internal Java microservices: We would like to add a special service which would serve as a "man-in-the middle", but only for the request part. It's purpose is to…
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IIS 6 and 7 hangs with many web services

I have an application that uses one web service asmx file per screen (like 50 screens), I didn't think this was a problem until we did tests. I tried with IIS7 on windows 2008, it hanged. Since its new to me I changed it to IIS6 on windows 2003, the…
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How do game servers communicate with master server

I have multiple game servers that run separate instances of game which can accommodate 20 players each. I want to know how game servers send information like player count, server state etc to main server (which send all game server info like ip,…
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Nginx - how can set unlimited time for proxy_read_timeout?

I have setup nginx as my api calls. There is an API call which require to reponse 6-8 minutes to do calulcation and reponse to the API but nginx throw 504 Proxy Timeout. I need max unlimited reponse timeout for proxy_read_timeout. How can I achive…
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Web Service Deployment to Production Server

I have a old style .NET Web Service running in IIS correctly on my local machine: http://localhost/MyService/MyService/Service1.asmx I added a Web Reference and set it's property to dynamic so that I could simply change the URL in the Web.config…
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