Okay, I posted a question earlier 'xml stream' that I now know did not have enough information (mainly because I did not quite fully understand the problem). I'm a little closer now so I'm going to re-word it. Here's what's happening (and I'll give more specifics here):

My webpage is used to control procurement and purchasing for a local school district (pencils, desks, computers, etc…). I am trying to integrate direct business to business transactions from our website to "SOME_VENDOR's" website where the user on my website can 'punchout' to "SOME_VENDOR" by clicking on a 'shop at SOME_VENDOR' button, do some shopping and click a 'checkout' button which will send the entire 'shopping basket' contents (in the form of an XML document) from the vendor to the 'postback_url' that I submitted to the vendor during the punchout.
All transactions are done on https
Webserver: IIS5
Perl: Latest version of Activestate.

That is it in a nutshell. Looks kind of confusing - basically, this is to cut a lot of the red tape involved in purchasing - integrating with our own procurement process thereby going through only one purchasing process instead of two.

My question is that when the user is ready to checkout, SOME_VENDOR will eventually send an XML page with the shopping basket contents to the postback_url I gave them. So I need a script that is expecting an XML page - I'm not sure how to do this. Most everything I've see on LWP involves initiating a request and parsing the response to that request, but it seems to me that the request was at the punchout page - not sure how to 'expect this XML page'.

Thanks, sorry for the lengthy text.

In reply to xml response by averylongloginname

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