WebService timeout - web-services

I have a problem with deploying my web service in our Web server. In my
development machine (inside of our LAN), everything works fine. When I move
the application into our Web server (public addressed), I always get the
timeout exception. while i connecting the web service through my web browser it works fine with no issues, but through application am getting the timeout error. My app connects to our database server (inside of our LAN) to get statistical data in form of datasets. can i know the issue about this point.

That is most likely a firewall/port forwarding issue.
Did I understand you correctly: Your client application connects to the database server directly?
You should check which port you are using to connect to the database server.
Then check if the web server has an active firewall and if so, configure it properly to accept connections on that port.
You can always easily check if a port is open and reachable by using telnet:
On the command line type telnet MY_IP MY_PORT.
If a connection can be established the port is open.

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using c++ wss server with websocket++ or other c++ websocket lib

I am trying to write a c++ websocket server and have browser/chrome clients connect over websockets, for a multiplayer game. The websocket c++ library I'm using atm is websocketpp or websocket++. I wrote an app that allows clients to connect over ws and localhost, but when I add an ip for the address, connections don't occur at all. Now I think I have to use ssl and wss for ip connection? I tried it and there is some connection activity, but then the handshake times out. Could I be experiencing cross-orgin issues, or what, do i need ssl? I am new to websockets. Could the problem be my ssl certs I made with openssl? I can post code, or if you are familiar with a c++ library to do websockets, what is it? Is this even a possible thing to do?
There could be multiple reasons why it won't connect over ip.
The first is port forwarding. On a local network it's not necessary but running a server over a remote network, portforwarding has to be done. You can just run your server then use a simple port checker (there's many websites for them) to see if a connection can be established.
The other reason could be as you said ssl. If you are running your client on a web host, the host may require a connection to be made over ssl/wss for websockets. If your server isn't running a valid ssl certificate then this could prevent the client from connecting to your server. I know for exampe Github pages requires the server to be running wss or valid ssl certificates on the server side in order for a client connection to be established; however, if you use a custom domain name for Github pages then you can disable the need for ssl.
In order to get valid ssl certificates you would need to register a domain for your ip address then either buy certificates or use free certificates from zerossl or other distributors.
Here is a game I have written which connects to a c++ server which I'm running on my own machine with its own domain with valid ssl certificates and the client is running on github pages with a custom domain I have registered.
It's basically multiplayer minesweeper where the objective is to locate the flags rather than avoid them.

How can I enable my laptop to receive HTTP requests over port 8080 on my private network?

I'm behind a router and I have a web service hosted on Tomcat on my laptop. It's running on port 8080. I want my phone, also connected to my home network to be able to send HTTP requests to my laptop on port 8080. I installed a REST service app on my phone that allows me to send customized HTTP requests to wherever, and I tried sending it to 192.168.1.20:8080/web-service/test, where 192.168.1.20 is the address of my laptop on my home network and /web-service/test is the url I'm using to interact with the web-service, but I keep getting an "invalid request" message. When I access the web-service through that url using localhost:8080/web-service/test on my laptop the text that's printed in the browser is "running," but not when accessed through the phone.
I also tried pinging my laptop from my phone using another app and the ping is successful. The firewall is turned off and network sharing is on (windows 10). Anyone have any idea why I cannot access the web-service using 192.168.1.20:8080/web-service/test?
the problem was with the rest api testing app i was using on my phone. for some reason it was showing me an "invalid request" message even if the same url worked when i visited it from the chrome app. but basically it was working the entire time.

Port blocked creating web app on AWS

I'm trying to create a web app on AWS and I'm running into port issues. I would like to have multiple apps providing different services on different ports. I've created a website (on the same instance) to receive a text query and pass it to my app on port 3000. The app listening on 3000 is written in CherryPy.
We are using a VPN to provide security for the AWS instance. When logged into the VPN, everything works fine. The web page loads, the query returns the correct data. When I disconnect from the VPN, or someone else goes to the page, the page still loads, but queries to the service time out.
I've used netstat to make sure the service is listening but I'm not sure what could be blocking traffic. I've worked through the CORS issues as evident by the fact it works when I'm signed into the VPN.
What can I check now?
When I disconnect from the VPN, or someone else goes to the page, the page still loads, but queries to the service time out.
My assumption is that the web server and the app are on the same server.
It sounds very much like the connection from web server to app is happening via a routed IP address rather than localhost. In addition to being slower, it's also hitting your firewall rules.
Configure the web server to access your app on localhost:3000 and the issue should clear up.
I actually got it working. I have an AWS instance with nginix and CherryPy. When the user goes to a web address, the nginix page loads with a form for a query string. When they submit a string, the string is POSTed to a CherryPy service running on port 3000. The CherryPy service does some computations and returns a result via JSON.
I thought I had opened up everything completely for testing, but I was having so many issues. It turned out that having CherryPy set
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin" = "*"
wasn't working, instead I needed to specifically set the origin of the calling page.

CFHTTP firewall issue? How are CFHTTP requests made?

CFHTTP on my new CF 9 server is failing. I get back "408 Request Time-out" when attempting to connect to the test page on the server via its internal or external IP. I am not using SSL and using the standard port 80.
My old CF 9 server can connect to itself fine but it also fails if attempting to connect to the new server.
If I RDP into the server, I am able to pull up the same test page via a web browser or via telnet to that ip port 80.
I suspect that this is a firewall issue. I'd like to know how CF makes an HTTP request under the hood before I talk to the hosting team. What service is making the call? What port is it running under, etc.
You don't say what operating system you are running under, but if it is Windows, I'd take a look at the Windows Firewall settings on your new machine, and disable the firewall. That will allow you to check if indeed it is the Firewall in the way.
If that works you can then try and add a firewall exception for the application, i.e. JRun.
Hope that helps.

Testing a remote web service with soapUI

I have a Javax web service deployed in a remote Linux machine within a JBoss ESB container. I am able to test the web service using soapUI on the same machine as where the service is deployed. The WDSL URI I used was something like http://127.0.0.1:8080/abcd/abcd?wsdl.
What I would like to do is to be able to test the same service from another machine using soapUI. I tried replacing 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of the machine where the service is deployed. This does not seem to work. Can someone tell me what I am missing here?
Thanks.
a sum of things could go wrong there - as already mentioned by the others the firewall is blocking access for the given (address, port) pair. Another thing that happened to me was that the WSDL was generated using the name of the machine it was deployed on and whenever I was trying to call the service from a different machine it was complaining that I cannot find the given machine.
You need to test network connectively. One tool you can use is plain old telnet. If you telnet to the ip/port combo of the web server, you will get a response (an HTTP error). For example:
$ telnet 192.168.0.10 8080
If you get nothing then there is almost certainly a firewall blocking access.
If you are convinced that no firewall is blocking you, the other possibility is that the web server is only bound to the local network adapter (127.0.0.1) and not the other network adapters (ethernet/wifi). This is very unlikely however.