luasocket/soap: can I keep the connection open?

[nkiesel@...]

Hi,

I use luasoap to talk to a server (vmware) and right now every soap call
creates a new TCP socket (and closes it after the call).  As I'm actually
using https, this means setting up the ssl connection for every call.  I
thought I might avoid that by explicitly opening and closing the socket
(in my login/logout methods), but I can't figure out how to do that.

Any ideas/hints?

Best,
  Norbert