Hi! It's been a while! So I have a project where I need to have a server running just to ingest XML files POSTed from a vendor's server. I have something basic working but my responses after ingesting the XML are throwing errors on the vendor's side. Here's what I have:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
{
    package Four51Listener;
    use HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI;
    use base qw( HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI );
    use EGA::Utils qw( TimeStamp ); # a set of custom functions

    my %dispatch = (
    '/toMFF'    => \&toMFF,
    );

    sub handle_request {
    my ( $self, $cgi )  = @_;
    my $path    = $cgi->path_info();
    my $handler = $dispatch{ $path };

    if ( ref( $handler ) eq 'CODE' ) {
        $handler->( $cgi );
        print $cgi->header( -type => 'text/xml', -charset => 'ascii' )
+, response_ok();
    }
    }

    sub toMFF {
    my $cgi    = shift;
    my $xml = $cgi->param( 'POSTDATA' );
    }

    sub response_ok {
    my $timestamp   = TimeStamp();
    $timestamp    =~ s/\s/T/;
    my $response    = <<EOF;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE cXML SYSTEM "http://xml.cXML.org/schemas/cXML/1.1.009/cXML.d
+td">
<cXML payloadID="foo&commat;ceprinter.com" xml:lang="en-US" timestamp=
+"$timestamp">
    <Response>
    <Status code="200" text="OK" />
    </Response>
</cXML>
EOF
    return $response;
    }
}

my $pid    = Four51Listener->new(8888)->background();
print "Kill $pid to stop server.\n";

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The server doing the POST expects XML back but I keep getting errors about "protocol violation". I'm not opposed to using a framework like Dancer2 or Mojolicious, but I'm not quite sure how to do so for something like this.

Any ideas?

In reply to Simple web server to ingest POST by 23skiddoo

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