client timeout

["Vincent G. Ladlad" <vi...@ntsp.nec.co.jp>]

hi .. 

does anyone know a way to check if the client still has a network
connection to the server?

assumption:
soapclient calls method from soapserver.  the procedure takes a
significantly
long time to finish (e.g. 1 hour).  while the procedure goes on, the
network
goes down, such that after the procedure finishes, the soapserver causes
an
exception to be thrown because it cant send a response to the client. 
the client in turn does not know if the network is still alive, and
waits forever
for the server's response.

i cant set Call's timeout because it might timeout too early, even
before the procedure
has finished.  and the procedure's length is variable. can be days, or
something.

anybody got a suggestion?

thanks.


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