Esteemed Monks,

Right now SOAP::Lite has to be one of my least favourite modules. But I am committed to using it, so here is my latest issue.

This code fragment:

  my $submit = {
    user => $self->{_armthree}->{G_userid},
    auth => $enc_password,
  };
  my $submit_xml = XMLout( $submit, KeyAttr => [] );
  my $string = undef;
  eval {
    $string =
      SOAP::Lite->uri('http://someplace.com/request')->proxy('http://a
+3g.someplace.com/cgi-bin/a3gr_003.cgi')
      ->_10396($submit_xml)->result;
  };
  if ($@) {
    # we got an error in sending to SOAP server.
    debug("In checking ARM-IIIG SOAP server, SOAP::Lite said: $@");
    return 0;
  }
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Sends a small XML request to the server, and with no data being retuirned (it is merely echoing the submitted XML) it is taking as long as 4 or 5 seconds - okay, thats fair enough - HTTP, server laods and all taken into account. But this is in a Perl/Tk application and so the GUI stalls for that period.

Is it possible to use SOAP::Lite in some sort of non-blocking mode?

Your grateful supplicant, jdtoronto