Handling Soap timeouts in PHP

Question

I\'m working on a project where I am verifying information from a user with a SOAP web service. I currently am taking care of errors assuming that I\'m receiving responses from

Answer 1

From my experience, if $e->getMessage is "Error Fetching http headers", you are dealing with a network timeout.

If $e->getMessage is something like "Cannot connect to host", the service you are trying to reach is down.

Then there is "Looks like we got no XML document", which is more cryptic an can mean different things.