Hi All, once again troubling you all, if anyone could answer my query. i am catching errors on client side with response-'gt;fault i get the faultcode and faultstring correctly as in soap message and is logged but the faultdetail is not getting retrieved. the tcpdump of the application run shows the faultdetail as follows <soap:Fault> <faultcode>soap:Server</faultcode> <faultstring>Application error</faultstring> <detail> <c-gensym5> <c-gensym6 xsi:type="xsd:string"> CONNECT ERROR FATAL: Password authentication failed for user "test". </c-gensym6> </c-gensym5> </detail> </soap:Fault> now the problem is how can i retreive the value of detail element i.e string "CONNECT ERROR FATAL: Password authentication failed for user 'test'. " as i want that also to be logged to error log but faultdetail returns undef/empty (i guess!) as its not a ref, i checked for ref. can any soap guru tell me the way to get it work Rohant