my $soap = SOAP::Lite ->uri($uri)->proxy( $proxyUrl, timeout => 5 ) ->deserializer(XMLRPC::Lite->new()); #### my $soap = SOAP::Lite ->uri($uri)->proxy( $proxyUrl, timeout => 5 ) ->deserializer(Deserialize->new()); package Deserialize; use warnings; use strict; use SOAP::Lite; use vars qw(@ISA); @ISA = ('SOAP::Deserializer'); sub deserialize { return $_[1] } 1;