On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, John Coppens wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 16:55:23 +0200 (CEST) > Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is it possible to delay a SOAP call a few seconds at the service > > > provider (until new data is available)? Hmm, this reveals the question > > > what are the timeouts for TCP/IP connection and for the web services? > > > > I think a few seconds are possible, a timeout is usually longer than > > that. The webservices do not specify any values for timeouts. I'm not > > sure whether the HTTP protocol has such definitions, but I would be > > surprised if it had. > > If using the HTTP protocol, it's possible to define a refresh time of x > seconds using a meta-tag: > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" > CONTENT="3;URL='http://www.homepage.com/spot3.html'"> > > This is quite popular with webcams and such. But this is of course not > the definition of a timeout value, you would have to know when the next > value is due. Yes, but: 1. This is HTML, not HTTP. SOAP doesn't use HTML, it uses XML. 2. Even so, it's up to the client to actually implement the refresh. A browser will do this, but a simple RPC mechanism usually will not. (especially since it doesn't understand HTML) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
