Hello, I am very new to Perl and I want to create a Perl web service that accepts a SOAP message, grabs the XML as a text block and saves it in a DB. To do this I created two simple Perl stubs to send an XML doc to a very simple web service. However, I only get an error saying cannot access member in main. I looked this up and only seem to find very generic reasons of which none seem to apply. Below is the very simple code I have written. I am using Strawberry PERL via IIS. Code to send the SOAP message is below. I use a predefined string for the message as I want to swap out many different SOAP messages for testing. 

#!perl

use HTTP::REQUEST;
use LWP::UserAgent;

#print "Hello there\n";

my $useragent = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => 'Perl Post');

my $message = '<?xml version="1.0"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://
+localhost"><soap:Header></soap:Header><soap:Body><soap:Method>Demo</s
+oap:Method></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>';

my $response = $useragent->post('http://localhost/read_xml.pl',Content
+_Type => 'text/xml', Content => $message);

print $response->as_string;

exit;

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My very simplistic server code is below. Again, eventually I want to grab the XML as text but cannot even get it to connect without the error right now. I have also made Demo a class and called it as such but that did not change the error. Any ideas would be appreciated. 
#!perl


use SOAP::Lite;
use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;

#print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
-> dispatch_to('Demo')
-> handle;

package Demo;

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";


print "This is a test\n";

my $argument = pop;

print "Argument is: $argument\n";

exit;

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