UTL_HTTP Fails After Large Number of Requests

Question

Hello,
The following code issues an HTTP request, obtains the response, and closes the response. After a significantly large number of iterations, the code causes the session to terminate with an "END OF FILE ON COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL" error (Oracle Version 10.2.0.3). I have the following two questions that I hope someone can address:
1) Could you please let me know if you have experienced this issue and have found a solution?
2) If you have not experienced this issue, are you able to successfully run the following code below in your test environment?
DECLARE
http_req utl_http.req;
http_resp utl_http.resp;
i NUMBER;
BEGIN
i := 0;
WHILE i < 200000
LOOP
i := i + 1;
http_req := utl_http.begin_request('http://<<YOUR_LOCAL_TEST_WEB_SERVER>>', 'POST', utl_http.HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
http_resp := utl_http.get_response(http_req);
utl_http.end_response(http_resp);
END LOOP;
dbms_output.put_line('No Errors Occurred. Test Completed Successfully.');
END;
Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

I believe the end_request call is accomplished implicitly through the end_response function based on the documentation that I have reviewed. However, to be sure, I had attempted your suggestion as it also had occurred to me. Unfortunately, after attempting the end_request, I received an error since the request was already implicitly closed. Therefore, the assumption is that the end_request call is not applicable in this context. Thanks for the suggestion though. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know.