open persistent client connection from apache 2?

[zethix or something]

Hi,

I'm writing a module for apache 2. What I need is to create a socket from
the server, then connect it to somewhere and keep the connection open
while the server is alive. Also, of course, I would like to be able to
receive data from the socket and then to trigger handling of a request by
the rest of the server code. Is this possible? 

regards zethix