On 19.06.2009 18:35 Rocco Caputo wrote: > That's probably the keep-alive timer in POE::Component::Client::HTTP. > You can preemptively shutdown the client when you know you won't need > it anymore.
How would I do that? As I said I am totally new to POE and still have some problems picking up the concepts involved. > Starting and stopping POE involves some setup & cleanup overhead. I'm > not sure if the overhead will exceed your expectations. If it does, I > have a POE::Component::Client::HTTP wrapper that avoids the stop/ > restart and provides a different API. Experimental, unreleased code, > no warranties, same-terms-as-perl, etc.: > > http://poe.dyndns.org/~troc/tmp/pua.pl > http://poe.dyndns.org/~troc/tmp/pua-defer.pl Thanks, I will try them with my application (on Monday). Looks promising, though in pua.pl I get this error message: (in cleanup) Can't call method "free" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/POE/Component/Connection/Keepalive.pm line 44 during global destruction. -Michael
