Have you tried throwing an AxisFault from your handler. That should suffice.
-----Original Message----- From: Vijay Bharti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to break out of Axis request Handler Hi All, I have written a small service handler to authenticate the SOAP client which is trying to access a service hosted on Axis. I want to know how can I stop the execution of the request if the authentication fails( and stopping Axis from invoking the target service) and send a fault message back to the client. Thanks, Vijay