I'm having some fairly strange problems trying to use SOAP::Lite with Windows. I'm running a Linux server and some Linux clients, and everything works perfectly. However, when I use the same client code on Windows, it doesn't work right.

The first problem I encountered was trying to use SOAP::Transport::TCP. I started my server just like the perldoc said, like so: 

my $daemon = SOAP::Transport::TCP::Server
  -> new(LocalAddr => 'localhost', LocalPort => $port, Listen => 5,
  Reuse => 1)->dispatch_to('RecommendServer');
print "Contact to SOAP server at " . join(':', $daemon->sockhost,
  $daemon->sockport) . $/;
$daemon->handle;

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Connecting to this server with the Linux client, like: 
my $soap_response = SOAP::Lite->
  uri("http://tako:$port/RecommendServer")->
  proxy("tcp://tako:$port")
  ->similarity_ranked($user);

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works fine; I can access the objects I want, get stuff over the network, whatever. No problem. But then I try the same code on the Windows box, and I get the error: IO::Socket::INET: connect: Unknown error at tk3 line 199 (tk3 is my script; line 199 is the line above).

So that was pretty irritating. I decided to try using the HTTP server rather than the TCP server: 

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon  
  ->new(LocalPort => $port, DEBUG => 1) 
  ->dispatch_to('RecommendServer') 
  ->handle;

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Connecting from the client like so: 
 my $soap_response = SOAP::Lite->
  uri("http://tako:$port/RecommendServer")->
  proxy("http://tako:$port")->similarity_ranked($user);

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worked great on Linux as usual. Then I tried it on Windows, and it worked! The first time. The second time (in the same session) I tried, it froze up. More accurately, it seemed to open a connection to the server and then block. No other clients (whether Linux or Windows) could connect. After about a minute and a half, the client finally manages to request the data it wants and stops blocking, allowing other clients to happily connect again.

I've tried using SOAP::Lite with +trace => qw(all), but the client just prints my debug message "contacting server" and then sits there until the connection actually works. I can't figure out how enable debugging on the server.

Thanks for any help!

Daniel Ashbrook

In reply to SOAP::Lite in Windows by anjiro

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