Coldfusion Web Service - Connection refused

Question

Hello,

I am receiving following error while connecting to coldfusion web service from client machine

org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException : Connection refused: connect ( actual link to cfc component )

any idea?

Answer 1

Check the remote machine's firewall configuration.

Answer 2

Use SOAP UI tool to test the remote web-service. There could be problem with the network / firewall of the remote machine.

Answer 3

Does the coldfusion web service gzip the content? I recently encountered something similar when we enabled gzip on our server.

If you are doing a CFHTTP call, you need to pass in the following to prevent GZIP:

<cfhttpparam type="header" name="accept-encoding" value="deflate;q=0">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="te" value="deflate;q=0">