URL redirection config in PI SOAP receiver communication channel

Question

Hi,
I am working on a similar scenario where I my consuming an external web service using https protocol from PI.
I have configured a soap receiver channel to call the target url of this web service as https://portal.xyz.org.uk/webservice_alt.
I am getting an error HTTP 302 suggesting that PI is not able to follow the re-direction to the target URL as the service resides not on that URL but on https://portal1.xyz.org.uk/webservice_alt or https://portal2.xyz.org.uk/webservice_alt.
This is their server fail over handling mechanism which is very common. But PI 7.0 is not able to handle this.
So if I change the target URL on the SOAP receiver channel to  https://portal1.xyz.org.uk/web service  or  https://portal2.xyz.org.uk/webservice_alt , PI works fine without errors . But this is not the right approach because, every time the web service provider takes one of these systems down for upgrade/patching etc, they inform us and then I manually go and change the target URL to the available server on my production PI system config.
My problem is I want to resolve this redirection error in PI. I have tried raising a call with SAP itself and they pointed out to use Axis adapter which is still not working.
So I am here asking for help. any suggestions please from the experts?
Thanks
Jhansi.

Answer 1

Hi guys,
I am sorry if I have not been clear so far!!
What I am talking about is a URL redirection capability of PI. what i mean is , when you call any service in general using a browser/soap ui etc, it pings that url and follows the redirection.
For example when i try to test this external web service directly using soap ui tool, it also returns HTTP 302 error. But when I set the 'Follow redirect' property to 'true' , it follows the redirection and calls the service on 'portal1' or 'portal2' .
You assume PI is a test tool like SOAPUI. When the address or URL changed in WSDL and if you load the latest WSDL in soapUI it post the request to the latest URL. YOu import WSDL only in ESR not in IR. Dont forget it. Though WSDL has soap address location, it will not impact the wsdl changes directly in ID.
It makes no sense to complain regarding the behaviour of PI when the reason for the problem is outside (WS provider).
please note that the target url is fixed which is  https://portal.xyz.org.uk/webservice_alt.
so we are not talking here about the service provider altering the service and sending us new wsdl's etc.
All users of this webservice have been non-sap users so far and consumers use java, .net etc platforms and are easily able to handle the redirection.because this redirection is a part of failover mechanism.
I hope i am able to picture my problem.
thanks
Jhansi.