GetProducts <-
function()
{
  getproducts.xml <- paste('
   <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:mod="https://modis.ornl.gov/MODIS_soapservice">
                            <soapenv:Header/>
                            <soapenv:Body>
                            <mod:getproducts soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
                            </soapenv:Body>
                            </soapenv:Envelope>',
                            sep = "")

  header.fields <- c(Accept = "text/xml",
                     Accept = "multipart/*",
                     'Content-Type' = "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
                     SOAPAction = "")

  reader <- basicTextGatherer()
  header <- basicTextGatherer()

  curlPerform(url = paste0(daacmodis, wsdl_loc),
              httpheader = header.fields,
              postfields = getproducts.xml,
              writefunction = reader$update,
              verbose = FALSE)

  # Check the server is not down by insepcting the XML response for internal server error message.
  if(grepl("Internal Server Error", reader$value())){
    stop("Web service failure: the ORNL DAAC server seems to be down, please try again later.
         The online subsetting tool (https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/MODIS/GLBVIZ_1_Glb/modis_subset_order_global_col5.pl)
         will indicate when the server is up and running again.")
  }

  xmlres <- xmlRoot(xmlTreeParse(reader$value()))
  productsres <- xmlSApply(xmlres[[1]],
                           function(x) xmlSApply(x,
                               function(x) xmlSApply(x,xmlValue)))

  if(colnames(productsres) == "Fault"){
    if(length(productsres['faultstring.text', ][[1]]) == 0){
      stop("Downloading from the web service is currently not working. Please try again later.")
    }
    stop(productsres['faultstring.text', ])
  } else{
    return(as.vector(productsres))
  }
}