Hi there,

I have an application where apache/php processes make SOAP requests over https to a single remote server (which is IIS I think). I am trying to cut down the time each request takes.

In it's current configuration I think some time will be wasted as the php client and IIS server handshake to set up a new SSL connection for each request, thereby adding (at least) twice the network latency between the two servers to each request. (As far as I can tell there is no way to make php SOAP use some kind of persistant connection or SSL cache when talking to the server)

I am wondering if I pushed the soap requests as http through stunnel whether stunnel would be more efficient with SSL connections or whether it will just create a new tunnel with a new ssl session for each request it receives?

Does anyone have any advice?

Paul