connecting with WCF client

Question

I am trying to connect to a Java based service from WCF .NET client. the address of the service is something like https://xxxxx:4444/myownservice I can successfully access the WSDL on https://servername:4444/myownservice/?WSDl but when I run the proxy client , the process is timing out and gave me this error message

"Could not connect to ..... TCP error code 10060: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond xxxxx:4444

where xxxx is the server name

I tried to telnet the server with the port number, and telnet failed (using server name or its IP address). I can ping to the server.

My question is: if I can browser the wsdl with http://xxxxx:4444/servicename/?WSDL does it mean that the port 4444 is open? or not necessarily

Answer 1

It's possible that the service was up and running when you grabbed the WSDL, but that it dropped thereafter. Since you can't telnet to it, I'd say the service is down. Since you can ping it, I'd say the server itself is running. Ping operates on a different port.

Answer 2

I will ask the question again. My question is If I can browse the WSDL from http://servername:4444/service/?WSDL does that mean , the port 4444 is open? Because when I use telnet , it fails I use telnet with this command telnet servername 4444