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Hi,

I'm trying to get the Perl SOAP::Lite examples to work on a Windows PC, running Apache 2.2.4. Although I've several years' of Perl experience, my knowledge of webservers and their configuration etc is a little limited.

Apache is definitely serving CGI scripts, as I've tested a dummy Hello World thing. I'm also definitely getting a hit when I use a browser to get to my hibye.cgi server (well, a blank page rather than a 404).

However, when I run my hibye.pl client, I receive a 503 Service Unavailable at H:\scripts\hibye.pl line 25.

It works when I access the SOAP server at http://services.soaplite.com, but not the one on my webserver.

Is there some specific Apache config required? Am I missing something fundamental?

NB if I use localhost rather than the IP address I get 301 Moved Permanently.

Here's the server:-

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl -w
 
  use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;
 
  SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI   
    -> dispatch_to('Demo')     
    -> handle;
 
  package Demo;
 
  sub hi {                     
    return "hello, world";     
  }
 
  sub bye {                    
    return "goodbye, cruel world";
  }
 
  1;
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Here's the client:-

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl -w
 
  use strict;  
  use SOAP::Lite;
#  use SOAP::Lite +debug;
 
  my $soap;
 
  print "Started\n";
 
  $soap = SOAP::Lite                                             
    -> uri('http://www.soaplite.com/Demo')                            
+                 
    -> proxy('http://services.soaplite.com/hibye.cgi')
    -> hi();
 
  if ( $soap -> fault ) {
    print "Failure - ".$soap->faultstring."\n";
  }
  else {
    print "Success - ".$soap->result."\n";
  }
 
  print "\n";
 
  $soap = SOAP::Lite                                             
#    -> uri('http://10.104.196.75/Demo') 
    -> uri('http://10.104.196.75/Demo')                               
+        
    -> proxy('http://10.104.196.75/cgi-bin/hibye.cgi')
#    -> proxy('http://localhost/cgi-bin/hibye.cgi')
    -> bye();                                                    
#    -> result;
 
  if ( $soap -> fault ) {
    print "Failure - ".$soap->faultstring."\n";
  }
  else {
    print "Success - ".$soap->result."\n";
  }
 
  print "Finished\n";
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Here's the debug output:-

H:\scripts>hibye.pl
Unquoted string "debug" may clash with future reserved word at H:\scri
+pts\hibye.
pl line 5.
Started
SOAP::Transport::new: ()
SOAP::Serializer::new: ()
SOAP::Deserializer::new: ()
SOAP::Parser::new: ()
SOAP::Lite::new: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::new: ()
SOAP::Lite::call: ()
SOAP::Serializer::envelope: ()
SOAP::Serializer::envelope: hi
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP::Request=HASH(0x1b7a
+244)
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST http://services.soap
+lite.com/h
ibye.cgi
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Proxy-Authorization: Basic SU1camdvb2NoOkJlcm5hcmQzMw==
Content-Length: 450
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "http://www.soaplite.com/Demo#hi"
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="ht
+tp://www.w
3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.
+org/soap/e
ncoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" x
+mlns:xsd="
http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schem
+as.xmlsoap
.org/soap/encoding/"><SOAP-ENV:Body><namesp1:hi xmlns:namesp1="http://
+www.soapli
te.com/Demo"/></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP::Response=HASH(0x1d7
+bb88)
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:55:59 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 DAV/1.0.3 mod_fastcgi/
+2.4.2 mod_
gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.4.7 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
Content-Length: 535
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Client-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:54:17 GMT
Client-Peer: 192.168.12.29:8080
Client-Response-Num: 1
SOAPServer: SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.55
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="ht
+tp://www.w
3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.
+org/soap/e
ncoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" x
+mlns:xsd="
http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schem
+as.xmlsoap
.org/soap/encoding/"><SOAP-ENV:Body><namesp1:hiResponse xmlns:namesp1=
+"http://ww
w.soaplite.com/Demo"><s-gensym3 xsi:type="xsd:string">hello, world</s-
+gensym3></
namesp1:hiResponse></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
SOAP::Deserializer::deserialize: ()
SOAP::Parser::decode: ()
SOAP::SOM::new: ()
SOAP::Lite::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Deserializer::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Parser::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Transport::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Serializer::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
Success - hello, world
 
SOAP::Transport::new: ()
SOAP::Serializer::new: ()
SOAP::Deserializer::new: ()
SOAP::Parser::new: ()
SOAP::Lite::new: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::new: ()
SOAP::Lite::call: ()
SOAP::Serializer::envelope: ()
SOAP::Serializer::envelope: bye
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP::Request=HASH(0x1e5e
+0dc)
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST http://10.104.196.75
+/cgi-bin/h
ibye.cgi
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Proxy-Authorization: Basic SU1camdvb2NoOkJlcm5hcmQzMw==
Content-Length: 448
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "http://10.104.196.75/Demo#bye"
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="ht
+tp://www.w
3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.
+org/soap/e
ncoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" x
+mlns:xsd="
http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schem
+as.xmlsoap
.org/soap/encoding/"><SOAP-ENV:Body><namesp2:bye xmlns:namesp2="http:/
+/10.104.19
6.75/Demo"/></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP::Response=HASH(0x1e5
+f028)
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unav
+ailable
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Length: 751
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:55:07 GMT
Client-Peer: 192.168.12.29:8080
Client-Response-Num: 1
Proxy-Connection: close
Title: Network Error
 
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Network Error</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
<big><strong></strong></big><BR>
</FONT>
<blockquote>
<TABLE border=0 cellPadding=1 width="80%">
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
<big>Network Error (tcp_error)</big>
<BR>
<BR>
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out"
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems p
+reventing
it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later t
+ime.
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica" SIZE=2>
<BR>
For assistance, contact your network support team.
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</blockquote>
</FONT>
</BODY></HTML>
 
SOAP::Deserializer::deserialize: ()
SOAP::Parser::decode: ()
503 Service Unavailable at H:\scripts\hibye.pl line 25
SOAP::SOM::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Lite::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Deserializer::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Transport::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Serializer::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Parser::DESTROY: ()
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Thanks for any help.

In reply to SOAP::Lite and Apache by furrypop

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