Hi fellow monks,

I'm writing a soap server using Apache::SOAP (part of SOAP::Lite).
The SOAP server provides an interface to a method DomainCheck->Check($domain) which performs various checks on a domain name. Check() returns an anon hash: { error => $int, severity => $int, text => $string }

It works great with a SOAP::Lite client but .Net clients are confused by the xml sent back by the server.

Here's my Apache::SOAP config in httpd.conf:

  <Location /DomainCheck>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler Apache::SOAP
    PerlSetVar dispatch_to "DomainCheck"
  </Location>
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A simple perl client:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use SOAP::Lite;

my $proxy = "https://10.191.110.64:8443/DomainCheck";
my $uri = "http://10.191.110.64/DomainCheck";

my $soap = SOAP::Lite->uri($uri)->proxy($proxy);
$soap->on_debug(sub{print@_});

my $result = $soap->Check("perl.com");
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Here's the xml sent by the perl client:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instanc
+e" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:S
+OAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http:/
+/www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xm
+lsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <namesp1:Check xmlns:namesp1="http://10.191.110.64/DomainCheck">
      <c-gensym3 xsi:type="xsd:string">perl.com</c-gensym3>
    </namesp1:Check>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
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and the xml sent back by the server:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instanc
+e" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:S
+OAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http:/
+/www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xm
+lsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <namesp7:CheckResponse xmlns:namesp7="http://10.191.110.64/DomainC
+heck">
      <s-gensym27>
        <text xsi:type="xsd:string">Valid Domain</text>
        <error xsi:type="xsd:int">0</error>
        <severity xsi:type="xsd:int">0</severity>
      </s-gensym27>
    </namesp7:CheckResponse>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
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What confuses the .net client is mainly the <s-gensym27> tag and the <namesp7> namespace. I have no idea where these tags come from, and why the number after them seem random (they change after each call)

Anyhow, here's what a .net client would expect:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope 
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <soap:Body>
    <CheckResponse xmlns="http://snoogen/DomainCheck">
        <severity>0</severity>
        <error>0</error>
        <text>ok</text>
    </CheckResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
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Is there a way to make Apache::SOAP generate .net-friendly SOAP messages?

Cheers,
theblop.

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