Playing around with SOAP::Lite lately. And I like it. One of the way I enjoy exploring new modules and code is just with Data::Dumper::Dumper(). It's a great way to see what's going on, what's really there, and usually a good companion to commonly terse or half-done POD. But with SOAP, it's not the objects that I'm interested in understanding, but the exchange of info between client and server. I could read the SOAP RFCs and the POD for 20 modules but it's easier, and more fun, to learn by watching the real thing in progress.

I know there are various ways to watch and record HTTP transactions (see and record the GETs and POSTs and replies with liveHTTPheaders or HTTP::Recorder) and I'd like to do something like that with SOAP::Lite (or any perl SOAP). See the client requests and the server responses.

Is there a perl solution done already? Is this simple to do otherwise; any pointers?

Thank you, for you're doctors.

In reply to Watching SOAP by Your Mother

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