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Micah_G
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Nov 15, 2016

Apache Axis connection timouts with iControl

I have two questions about the Apache Axis implementation in the java iControl lib:   Is it possible to configure the http connection timeout for iControl's soap calls? We see the socket timeout s...
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Joe_Pruitt
Nov 16, 2016

Is it possible to configure the http connection timeout?

 

If Apache Axis v1 supports it, we could set it but I don't believe it's exposed in the library. The lib is open sourced so we could make changes to it quickly. I seem to remember it wasn't exposed in the lower layers or I would have added it up on top.

 

What is driving this requirement? Are you having a situation where the connection to a BIG-IP is timing out?

 

Is it possible to swap Axis v1 for v2?

 

Unfortunately I believe it's No on this one. When we wrote iControl SOAP back in 2001, RPC/ENC was the primary encoding method. Over the years DOC/LIT became the preferred method and Apache removed support for RPC/ENC in v2. Unless they carry forward support for that encoding method, we are stuck with v1.