Check Webservice Availability

Description

The Check webservice availability action checks if a given URL (e.g. a Webservice URL) is valid, can be connected and data can be read from.

If it connects within the given timeout and data can be read, it returns 'true', otherwise 'false'.

Further information of the failing reason can be found in the log as an error log action.

Options

Option	Description
Action name	The name of the workflow action.
URL	Specifies the URL to validate.
Connect timeout (ms)	The connect timeout in ms. The value is depending on the quality of service of this URL and experiences.
Read timeout (ms)	After connection, the workflow action tries to read data. This value gives the read timeout in ms. The value is depending on the quality of service of this URL and experiences.

Option

Description

Action name

The name of the workflow action.

URL

Specifies the URL to validate.

Connect timeout (ms)

The connect timeout in ms. The value is depending on the quality of service of this URL and experiences.

Read timeout (ms)

After connection, the workflow action tries to read data. This value gives the read timeout in ms. The value is depending on the quality of service of this URL and experiences.

Result

What this action passes on to the next action. See Action results for how results travel through a workflow.

Result	Value
True	The URL could be opened and its content read, with 0 errors.
False	The URL can’t be opened or read: nothing listens on the port, the server answers with an HTTP error status (such as 404 Not Found), or URL is empty. The number of errors is 1.
Result files	Passed on unchanged.
Result rows	Passed on unchanged.

Result

Value

True

The URL could be opened and its content read, with 0 errors.

False

The URL can’t be opened or read: nothing listens on the port, the server answers with an HTTP error status (such as 404 Not Found), or URL is empty. The number of errors is 1.

Result files

Passed on unchanged.

Result rows

Passed on unchanged.