Hi

We are trying to use web service callouts and we are nearly there!

The web service callouts work, but only on our client's server (Running Windows 2008 and IIS6)

http://webservices.wlrstore.com/aiWebAdServerDemo/test1getpost.asmx 

But it dows NOT work on our own server (a virtual sever at Fasthosts, running Windows 2008 R2 and IIS7.5)

http://salesforce.alpha-index.co.uk/packageservice/helloworld.asmx

Both these web services have the HelloWorld method, and they work fine when we call them from a .Net page.

But in Salesforce the first URL works fine, but we get this error when we call the web service on our server:

System.CalloutException: IO Exception: Read timed out

 And if we try to execute like anonymous in Force IDE, we find this error:

(59124000)|CALLOUT_REQUEST|[28]|<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><env:Header /><env:Body><sayHelloWorld xmlns="http://salesforce.alpha-index.co.uk/packageservice/" /></env:Body></env:Envelope>
(59194000)|CALLOUT_REQUEST|[28]|sayHelloWorld_element:[apex_schema_type_info=(http://salesforce.alpha-index.co.uk/packageservice/, true, false), field_order_type_info=()]::SFDC_STACK_DEPTH=1 SOAPAction="http://salesforce.alpha-index.co.uk/packageservice/sayHelloWorld" User-Agent=SFDC-Callout/27.0 Accept=text/xml Content-Type=text/xml; charset=UTF-8 
(10060111000)|EXCEPTION_THROWN|[28]|System.CalloutException: IO Exception: Read timed out
(10060449000)|METHOD_EXIT|[2]|01pd0000002I2L2|AlphaIndex.alphaIndexCoUkSample.HelloWorldSoap.sayHelloWorld()
(10060568000)|FATAL_ERROR|System.CalloutException: IO Exception: Read timed out

Does anyone know if there is an issue with Salesforce and IIS7 web services?

You don't need a certificate to use web services with Salesforce do you?

Could it be a firewall port setting?

Anybody have any other ideas?

Please help!!

Thank you in advance.

Pablo