in reply to Perl SOAP Web Service to Accept File Uploads

Hello sumeetgrover,

A good starting point could be Quick Start with SOAP. Take a look also on the module SOAP::Lite.

Hope this helps, BR.

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Re^2: Perl SOAP Web Service to Accept File Uploads
by sumeetgrover (Monk) on Mar 27, 2019 at 14:37 UTC
    Thanks for the links. They have all the information I need for now.
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Re^2: Perl SOAP Web Service to Accept File Uploads
by sumeetgrover (Monk) on Mar 27, 2019 at 16:20 UTC

    Hi thanos1983,

    One more question for you: By looking at "Quick Start with SOAP" web page link you sent me, it would appear that the SOAP Server script (CGI script in this instance) would need to run on a web server? (e.g. on Apache)

    So that the Client script could call, for example, http://localhost/SOAPServer.cgi? My question is: Does running a SOAP Service require an HTTP Web Server to run as well? (Please excuse my ignorance.)

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      sumeetgrover:

      You'll have to have *something* that acts as a webserver, but it doesn't have to be a full-featured web server like Apache or Nginx. You could use Plack or HTTP::Server::Simple or you could even roll your own. It just has to serve up a network connection and be able to direct the incoming request to your SOAP handler subroutine.

      ...roboticus

      When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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      Hello again sumeetgrover,

      Fellow Monk roboticus answered your question, but just to add something minor that maybe you find it useful. I used to work with SOAP/REST requests to my DB (MySQL) and for testing purposes I always had a webserver running for multiple reasons. For me handling the DB through the GUI (phpMyAdmin) made my life much easier for testing and DB modifications. Secondary reason was to test SOAP/REST and to be honest usually I was combining it with GUI again for the same reasons.

      The tool that I found really easy to install and configure to include all these together was LAMP (LinuxOS) and WAMP (WindowsOS).

      Hope this helps you with your task as it did for me. :)

      P.S.: (Please excuse my ignorance.) You are just starting with this area, never stop asking questions! You will never know the answer to a question until you will understand it and experiment (hands on) information. Do not worry about the questions keep shooting and simultaneously start coding/experimenting. Soon you will be up and running. :)

      BR / Thanos

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        Thanks for your feedback! I look forward to experimenting with some new piece of code. :)
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