[Soaplab-users] timeout settings and waitFor calls

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Hi,

I have recently learned that we need to be more cautious when using
runAndWaitFor and the waitFor methods in Soaplab interface. Soaplab web
applications by default has a connection timeout setting of 5 minutes.
Also some Soaplab servers may have load-balancer layers that may in turn
have a maximum reply time setting, as for the EBI Soaplab server. In my
recent experiences with jobs requiring time longer than the maximum reply
time setting of the EBI Soaplab server the error messages returned after
the maximum reply time was not clear enough to reveal that my waitFor
calls was returning due to maximum reply time timeout.

If you were getting error messages for your Soaplab calls after waiting
couple of minutes and the error messages was not clear enough to
understand the reason then it is possible that your calls may have been
interrupted due to one of the timeout settings. If you want to make sure
that you don't want to hit timeout limits an alternative would be to use
createAndRun->getStatus->getResults series of calls rather than the
createAndRun->waitFor calls or the runAndWaitFor call.

Regards,
Mahmut