This is a simple Perl program to query business info thru SOAP.

To use it, just type the business name, such as "IBM", and return. To quit, just type return without business name.

use Socket;
use IO::Select;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
use strict;
use warnings;

while (1) {
    print "Business: ";
    my $business = <>;
    chomp($business);
    if ($business) {
        my $businesses = find($business);
        display($businesses);
    } else {
        last;
    }
}

sub display {
    my $businesses = shift;
    foreach my $key (keys(%$businesses)) {
        print "-$key\n";
        print "---$businesses->{$key}\n" if(defined($businesses->{$key
+}));
    }
    print "=========================================\n";
}

sub find {
    my $name = shift;
    socket(UDDI, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname('tcp')) || die "
+socket: $!";
    connect(UDDI, sockaddr_in(80, inet_aton("www-3.ibm.com"))) || die 
+"connect: $!";
    my $envelope =     
        "<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.or
+g/soap/envelope/\">" .
            "<SOAP-ENV:Body>" . 
                "<find_business generic=\"2.0\" maxRows=\"100\" xmlns=
+\"urn:uddi-org:api_v2\">" .
                    "<name>" . $name . "</name>" .
                "</find_business>" .
            "</SOAP-ENV:Body>" .
        "</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>";

    my $msg = 
    "POST /services/uddi/inquiryapi HTTP/1.1\r\n" .
    "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=\"utf-8\"\r\n" .
    "Content-Length: " . length($envelope) . "\r\n" .
    "SOAPAction: \"\"\r\n" .
    "Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n" .
    "Pragma: no-cache\r\n" .
    "User-Agent: Peter Script\r\n" .
    "Host: www-3.ibm.com\r\n" .
    "Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2\r\n"
+ .
    "Connection: keep-alive\r\n" .
    "\r\n" .
    $envelope;
    syswrite(UDDI, $msg);
    
    my $res = "";
    my $sel = new IO::Select(*UDDI);
    while ($sel->can_read) {
        my $chunk;
        sysread(UDDI, $chunk, 100000);
        if (!length($chunk)) {
            last;
        } else {
            $res .= $chunk;
        }
    }
    close(UDDI);
        
    $res =~ m/.*?\r\n\r\n(.*)/;
    $res = $1;
    my $hash = XMLin($res);

    my $result = {};
    foreach my $business (@{$hash->{"SOAP:Body"}->{"businessList"}->{"
+businessInfos"}->{"businessInfo"}}) {
        $result->{$business->{"name"}->{"content"}} = $business->{"des
+cription"}->{"content"};
    }
    return $result;
}

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