SOAP Persistence

Hello, list! I have a PHP5 class that does many things with many properties. Some fool with ASP.Net needs to use the class, so I wrapped the class into a SOAP web service. But, I have PHP 5.0.3 with SOAP enabled, so no biggie. I have a WSDL built from the class. <disco:discovery> <scl:contractRef ref="https://xproto.qbopen.com:443/QBMSGateway/PROG/LIBQBWS/QBOpenSoapServer.php?wsdl"/> </disco:discovery> I have a SOAP client and SOAP server, both in PHP5 using the WSDL. So far, so good. I want to have the session vars be persistent between soap client calls, so following the guidance provided at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.soap-soapserver-setpersistence.php, I setPersistence as follows: $server->setPersistence(SOAP_PERSISTENCE_SESSION); Following are the SOAP Client request and response headers, which indicate that the server is setting a response header with a cookie with PHPSESSID, so I believe things are OK so far. SOAP Client: __getLastRequestHeaders(): POST /QBMSGateway/PROG/LIBQBWS/QBOpenSoapServer.php HTTP/1.1 Host: xproto.qbopen.com Connection: Keep-Alive User-Agent: PHP SOAP 0.1 Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8; action="urn:QBMSGateway#QBOpenQBMSGateway#ProcessCustomerCreditCardChargeRq" Content-Length: 1564 SOAP Client: __getLastResponseHeaders(): HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:42:27 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Win32) PHP/5.0.3 mod_ssl/2.0.52 OpenSSL/0.9.7e X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.3 Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=p9r4melj4rp6rfuvrbrmjs8p77; expires=Mon, 10-Oct-2005 14:44:31 GMT; path=/; domain=QBOpen.com Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 ------------- Now what? I think I'm missing the "Theory of Operation" for soap persistence. (1) The soap server does not (yet) use a $_SESSION var, but could. (2) The soap client does not (yet) do a setCookie() call, but could. When the class is used as a native PHP client class, the state of the object's properties are retained between function calls, so I can do interesting things. When the class is used with a SOAP Client, the state is lost between function calls (SOAP Calls), so I can only do "somewhat" interesting things. I think I'm very close to getting the SOAP usage on par with the native PHP usage. Thanks in advance (Dimity, George, et al). Sincerely, Bill.McCuistion@QBOpen.com http://QBOpen.com ... Products, Services & Solutions for Businesses large & small Tel: 281-842-1426 // Cell: 832-217-0771 ~~~~~~~~~ (\_~~ (\_~~ (\_~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (\_~~ (\_~~ (\_~~~~~~~~