Keeping socket open between calls

[Luke Galea <lg...@bluecatnetworks.com>]

Hello!! I am trying to make Apache SOAP keep my ssl socket open in
between calls in order to prevent un-needed handshaking.
 
Has anyone had success doing something similar? I am currently trying to
use a custom SSLSocketFactory without much success.. perhaps a new
transport would work? Why isn't something like this included or
available anywhere? 
 
Thanks in advance
 
Luke Galea 
Software Development
BlueCat <http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/>  Networks
905-762-5225
 

Re: Keeping socket open between calls

[Scott Nichol <sn...@scottnichol.com>]

Apache SOAP explicitly closes sockets after each request as it does 
not support HTTP keep-alives.

The frequent handshaking is, I believe, caused by JSSE or JDK 1.4 
marking cached sessions as stale very quickly.  I have run tests in 
which a cached SSL session is re-used anywhere from 0 to 6 times out 
of 10.  I have not figured out a way to control this.

On 4 Feb 2003 at 11:42, Luke Galea wrote:

> 
> Hello!! I am trying to make Apache SOAP keep my ssl socket open in 
> between calls in order to prevent un-needed handshaking.
> 
> Has anyone had success doing something similar? I am currently trying 
> to use a custom SSLSocketFactorywithout much success.. perhapsa new transport would work? Why 
> isn™t something like this included or available anywhere? 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Luke Galea 
> Software Development
> BlueCat Networks
> 905-762-5225
> 
> 


Scott Nichol