Hi, I've written a SOAP client that runs fine on Windows (strawberry 5.10.1) when the protocol is HTTP, but as soon as I switch to HTTPS, perl crashes unexpectedly with no error (Windows 7 just says "perl.exe has stopped working" or something equally useless).

I should mention that my client forks and hits the SOAP server with several sub-processes in parallel. I've determined the following:
- HTTP with and without fork() = works fine
- HTTPS without fork() = works fine
- HTTPS with fork() = CRASH
It might be significant to note that, in Windows, fork does not start a new process, but rather is implemented with threads (or so I've read).

I suspect SSLeay simply because I've read about problems with Windows and threading. Am I wrong to suspect this?

Is there a way to replace SSLeay as the SSL provider for SOAP::Lite?

Any tips as to what I could try next?

Thanks in advance.

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