Oh Monks hear my question! I am at the end the end of my rope.

I am using SOAP::Lite both on the client of service sides of a SOAP client/service situation. I have control of the code (on both sides) and of the web servers (Apache). All on RedHat 7.3 and it works very well, thank you. =) BUT! There is a problem. (The reason I am at the end of my rope is because this problem continues to bite me in the @ss. It is very frustrating.) I need either a CORBA like heartbeat function or some sort of KeepAlive function to keep long-running SOAP RPC function calls from timing out on the client side. I have tried using KeepAlive On under Apache and setting $SOAP::Constants::PATCH_HTTP_KEEPALIVE = 1; on the client side but that does not seem to work.

The only other thing I can think of is trying to somehow use a mulitpart document to send back a "Hey I'm still processing" SOAP reponse such that the connection doesn't timeout.

But before I dive into that I wanted to see if anyone else had a better idea.

Cheers!
--habit

P.S. I'm running over https. Just incase that makes a difference.

In reply to SOAP::Lite and KeepAlive by habit_forming

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