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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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Why a web server can be unresponsive?

We host our web-service on a dedicated server. During high-load period, the server returns a time-out error instead of a page very frequently. We have around 170,000 daily requests. However, server has a lot of free memory and the CPU is not loaded…
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How can I lock down an SSH and/or telnet user to only run a custom shell and no other commands or programs?

I asked this question on stack overflow, but I thought it might be more appropriate here on serverfault, because it has to do with system administration and security. I am looking to prototype a webservice, without having to deal with HTTP and other…
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How can I list files under a URL to a directory on a web/HTTP server?

I was wondering if there is a tool for listing files under a URL to a directory on a web/HTTP server? For example, is it possible to list files under a directory? Does running WebDav on a HTTP server provide services to enumerate resources on the…
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HTTP webservice no response

We have some issues on a connection between 2 devices through ASP webservices. On Wireshark, we saw that the request arrives to the destination computer and the IIS sends the response, but the origin computer does not receive the response. If we…
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How to handle localized connectivity issues between web services

Our web application uses various web services, most of which are not managed by us, but by an external service provider (e.g. Auth0 is one of those services). Recently, our application failed because a critical service was not reachable. Various…
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web services access not being reached thru the web browser

I am trying to reference my .asmx webservices in .NET but my server is not exposed to the internet. When I put on the following address I get the message mentioned below. What's the reason for not being able to see the directory? Am I missing…
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Convention for using ports in the 100-105 range

Is there a conventions for using/not using ports in the 100-105 range for e.g. webservices? Most browsers seem to block these for security reasons. Update The "most browser" statement is based on a mac at several locations but possibly a firewall…
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Where do I get Two Letter Domain Name?

For my business purpose I want to take a Two letter domain name(eg: xx.yy). Where do I get this? I think GoDaddy.com doesn't support two letter domain names? my name is not yet registered, thank God its available!!!!
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