[Israel.pm] SOAP::Lite and timeout

[Uri Bruck]

Yona Shlomo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to define a timeout for a SOAP client:
> 
> my $timeout = 1;
> my $soap = SOAP::Lite
> 	-> uri('urn:FooBar')
> 	-> proxy('http://localhost:9009', timeout => $timeout)
> ;
> 
> My client gets an undefined object from its method call
> upon timeout (peeking into the fault data, reveals that it was
> due to a timeout).
> So far so good.
> 
> It seems that the timeout breaks something, so the server
> dies too (I get a "Broken pipe" on the server's side).
> 
> Anyone knows why the server dies and how to avoid that?
This text:
http://www.majordojo.com/soaplite/
says that timeout is inherited from LWP::UserAgent, and it seems that 
SOAP::Lite doesn't have specific handling for it at all.

This url :
http://cookbook.soaplite.com/
provides no specific answer for this, but it does have that cookbook style.

> 
> I'm avoiding it now by ignoring sig-pipe signals:
> 	$SIG{PIPE}='IGNORE';
> However, I wonder why this happens and why isn't any of
> the lower layers is handling this.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 


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Thanks,
Uri
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