Hello monks,

I am trying to use SOAP::Lite to test our server under load. I need HTTP keep_alive capability so that all the request are made over the same connection.
The design I have in mind is to fork every service request. The pseudo code is something like this... 

use SOAP::Lite;

my $soap_client = SOAP::Lite->uri('myuri')
                    ->proxy('http://serviceendpoint',
                            timeout    => 30,
                            keep_alive => 1);
for (1 .. 10) {
    if(fork()) {
      #--- do something in parent
      #-- like wait for time specified by load rate etc.
      sleep(1); #--- just for pseudo code
    }
    else {
       $soap_client->call('SomeMethod',$paramter);
    }
}

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With the above what I am observing is that the SOAP client object in the forked child process closes the TCP connection after it gets the response from the server. I think this is because of the use of fork and the copy of the object going away after the child process is done. Is there a way around this so that the soap client uses the same connection (transport) across multiple forked processes?
Thanks. DP.

p.s.: I tried a bit to play around with IPC::Shareable but get some cryptic error Can't store CODE items at blib/lib/Storable.pm

p.p.s: In reality I am achieving the forking using POE and POE::Wheel::Run. The issue is the same as with the use of basic fork as above.

In reply to SOAP::Lite How to use persistent connection across fork process by Anonymous Monk

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