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Subject: Cross Posting - [ogsa-wg] How to make effective use of WS-BaseFault in GFF specs
Folks, More from Steve on Base Faults. Begin forwarded message: > From: Steve Loughran <steve_loughran@hpl.hp.com> > Date: 17 January 2005 17:13:30 GMT > To: David Snelling <David.Snelling@uk.fujitsu.com> > Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] How to make effective use of WS-BaseFault in > GFF specs > > David Snelling wrote: > > Steve, > > > > There has not been much guidance of the use of BF done in public. You > > might look at the Globus alpha release. > > > > Also a couple of these look like good issues for the WSRF-BF issue > list. > > Can I cross post it there? > > Yes, they can even have a look at the relevant bit of the latest draft > of the deployment API, which I have attached. > > Ideally it would be nice for there to be a well known 'Wrapped SOAP > Fault' class. Same even for a WrappedHttpFault, where things like a > 304 redirect with the redirection header would be included, but that > needs a SOAP stack that goes down to that level. We added the > HttpFaultcode in Axis to track down low level problems (esp with > proxies and wrong URLs), but there are a lot more diagnostics that > could be captured at that point. > > The use case for some of the fields is trying to track down problems > on your server cluster with nothing but a customer at the end of a > telephone to provide diagnostics. The more diagnostics, the better, > both client side and server side. As a personal example, one problem > we tracked down on client complaints of "your service is returning bad > XML" was really "your client is pointing at the wrong URL"; the client > was trying to parse the textual 404 error page as if it was an XML > message, and throwing SAX errors... > > That was more amusing than when DNS failed on one node causing its > requests to fail early, with the load balancing router then directing > more traffic to that node because its throughput was higher. > > see: http://www.iseran.com/Steve/papers/when_web_services_go_bad.pdf > > -steve > > > >
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