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Thank you! This fixed my script-only-runs-for-so-long problem and makes perfect sense. SOAP sucks, unless you're washing your hands.
Submitted by Mike Lerley on Thu, 05/28/2020 - 22:09
PermalinkThank you! I had gone through an exhaustive and boring process to identify that it was actually a SOAP call that was causing the leak of filehandles (there were loads of other possibilities in my case), so it was really helpful that once I knew that, it took seconds to find this post with the solution.
Submitted by sam marshall on Tue, 02/02/2021 - 14:02
PermalinkHappy to help Sam. Glad you found the solution! \o/
Submitted by philipnorton42 on Tue, 02/02/2021 - 17:15
PermalinkThanks for the time spent on this article, I have a question.
If my soap call takes a long time to complete (at least 3 minutes for response to be complete), turning the "keep_alive" to false may cause some problems.
Is there a way to close the connection manually ?
Submitted by Amir on Thu, 12/16/2021 - 11:09
PermalinkWell, you can't directly close it as the client request is a blocking function. What I mean is that once the request is in motion you can't run any code to see if it's finished.
What you can do is set a timeout. From what I've read you can use the init_set() function to set the "default_socket_timeout".
However, that apparently doesn't effect https addresses, which makes it redundant. There are a few examples out there that extend the SoapClient class and change the __doRequest() method to use a non-blocking stream with a larger timeout, but I don't have any way of testing that these days.
Just remember that under the hood, SOAP is a http(s) request/response model. All the SoapClient does is wraps the complexity of changing arrays and objects into XML and then sends the response.
Submitted by philipnorton42 on Thu, 12/16/2021 - 15:49
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