Finding the size of the reponse using SOAP::Lite

[ianbell]

Hi all,

I'm working on a website which aggregates a number of webservice feeds, some of which are REST (and are accessed using LWP), and some which are SOAP (accessed using SOAP::Lite)

I'm trying to add in some benchmarking for these feeds, and i need to find out the size (in bytes) of the response to requests. for the RESTful ones, this is easy, i can just do content_length() on the LWP response.

Is there an similar way to do this with SOAP::Lite? I can't seem to find one.

The only approach I can find is to use the set the outputxml option in SOAP::Lite to true, and parse the returned XML myself, but I want to avoid this if I can.

Ian