unless (ref $self) {
    my $class = ref($self) || $self;
    # Check whether we can clone. Only the SAME class allowed, no inheritance
    $self = ref($soap) eq $class ? $soap->clone : {
      _transport    => SOAP::Transport->new,
      _serializer   => SOAP::Serializer->new,
      _deserializer => SOAP::Deserializer->new,
      _packager     => SOAP::Packager::MIME->new,
      _schema       => undef,
      _autoresult   => 0,
      _on_action    => sub { sprintf '"%s#%s"', shift || '', shift },
      _on_fault     => sub {ref $_[1] ? return $_[1] : Carp::croak $_[0]->transport->is_success ? $_[1] : $_[0]->transport->status},
    };