need to call server from the client using soap

i hv a hello1.pm in lib folder saved under cgi-bin code as

#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
# hello1.pm - simple Hello module

use strict;
sub sayHello {
 shift;                
  return "Hello " . shift;

}
1;
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I hv a hello.cgi saved under cgi-bin code as follows

#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
use lib 'hello1.pm';
# hello.cgi - Hello SOAP handler
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
#my $length = $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'};
#print $length;
#print "hello world";
use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
 -> dispatch_to('hello1::(?:sayHello)') 
 -> handle
;
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i hv a helloclient.pl saved under cgi-bin code as follows

#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
# hw_client.pl - Hello client
use SOAP::Lite;
#use cgi;
use hello1;
#my $cgi_in;
#my $cgi = new CGI ;
#$cgi_in = sayHello($cgi);
#print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
#print "Content- Length: 66";
my $name = shift;
#print "$name";
print "\n\nCalling the SOAP Server to say hello\n\n";
print "The SOAP Server says: ";
print SOAP::Lite
  -> uri('urn:hello')
  -> proxy('http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.cgi')
  -> sayHello($name)
     -> result ;
 print "welcome";
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when i run the client program as

perl helloclient.pl latha

output must be like

nCalling the SOAP Server to say hello
The SOAP Server says: Hello latha
welcome
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but helloclient program fails to call the hello.cgi

when i compile hello.cgi it is showing an error that status:411 Lenth Required

pls help to solve this

Thanks in advance

latha

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