I have a SOAP server running inside a Win32 Daemon. The functions are served over HTTPS. Im finding that calling only the 'new' function in my module (via SOAP) is resulting in a memory loss (as observed by watching the win32 task list).
Here's my SOAP 'wrapper': 
    my $hHTTP;

  my $hDaemon = HTTP::Daemon::SSL->new(LocalPort => 8001, 
            SSL_key_file => $curDir . "/certs/server-key.pem",
            SSL_cert_file => $curDir . "/certs/server-cert.pem" )
         || die "Can't start SSH Daemon. $!\n";

    my $soap = SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server
        -> new ( )
        -> dispatch_to(qw(auth));

  while ($hHTTP = $hDaemon->accept) 
    {
      while (my $request = $hHTTP->get_request) 
            {
                my $req =  $request->{_headers}{soapaction};


                $soap->request($request);
                $soap->handle();


                my $response = $soap->response();
                                $hHTTP->send_response($response);

      }
      $hHTTP->close();
  }

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In my test app I call the function as follows: 
  use SOAP::Lite +autodispatch =>
        proxy => 'https://testbed.org:8001/',
        on_fault => \&handle_fault;


my $obj = auth->new();

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I've wrapped this file in a test.pl that exec's it, waits 3 seconds and repeats. Here's the 'new' function that gets called inside the SOAP service: 
sub new
{
        my $pkg = shift;
        my $self = {};
        bless ($self, $pkg);

        return $self;
}

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All I can figure (at this point) (based on my limited understanding of Perl) is that SOAP or HTTP are keeping the pointers to the instances of my class and not letting them go. Im wondering if there is some way to coax the refcount of my package so it can be freed / GC'd.

In reply to Leaking memory from SOAP service by ethrbunny

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