Re: Using Persistent Connections with SOAP::Lite HTTP clients

Great snippet! Thanks.

FYI. As of http 1.1, the persistent connection (KeepAlive header) is set to true by default.

However if the server responds with a Connection: close header, the tcp (and ssl) connection between client and server is no longer persistent. The soap session may remain in place however depending on the soap client-server application communication.

It also implies that the server is not configured or not able to maintain or support persistent connections.

With kind regards.

ddn123456

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Re^2: Using Persistent Connections with SOAP::Lite HTTP clients by tomhukins (Curate) on Sep 21, 2010 at 19:13 UTC
I agree with everything you write, but I suspect you have misunderstood what my code does: it sets a request header in order to allow the server to leave the connection open after sending its response. The snippet I posted sets `Connection: KeepAlive` on the request, letting the server know that the client can deal with KeepAlive responses. Although HTTP 1.1 introduced this feature, clients and servers commonly support it as an extension when speaking HTTP 1.0: if the header does not exist, servers will close the TCP connection after each request as per standard HTTP 1.0.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Using Persistent Connections with SOAP::Lite HTTP clients by ddn123456 (Pilgrim) on Dec 16, 2010 at 12:52 UTC
Hi, Thanks for the clarification. Reading it now afterwards I didn't express myself clearly enough perhaps but I did understand your code snippet perfectly. It does remain a nice snippet :-) Greetings. ddn123456	[reply]