using DDD is a good one - thanks! I still don't get it though...

Here's what tcpflow is revealing;
request

POST / HTTP/1.1
TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
Connection: TE, close
Accept-Encoding: deflate
Host: localhost
User-Agent: RPC::XML::Client/1.19 libwww-perl/5.76
Content-Length: 102
Content-Type: text/xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall><methodName>sinister.name</methodName><params></params></m
+ethodCall>
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response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:44:39 GMT

Server: libwww-perl-daemon/1.33

Accept: text/xml
Accept-Encoding: deflate
Content-Length: 127
Content-Type: text/xml
RPC-Encoding: XML-RPC
RPC-Server: RPC::XML::Server/1.37



<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodResponse><params><param><value><string>sinister</string></value
+></param></params></methodResponse>
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Where does it go wrong? Beats me...