I need to create a web service to receive XML messages from Google checkout and respond to them in XML. The XML is sent as POST data with various HTTP headers to authenticate. Many of the Perl modules for writing web services seem to be standalone scripts that do their own web serving, but I want to use Apache.

I'm already set up with Apache and SSL, and I'd like to write this service as a CGI script, specifically a CGI::Application.

I need to perform Basic HTTP authentication based on a header and then slurp the XML into something like XML::Simple. Then, based on the data, I need to acknowledge receipt of the message via my own XML message.

Can I do all of this with CGI, or am I missing something?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

dan shahin

In reply to CGI and web services by dshahin

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