Dear Monks
I'm trying to send XML to an XMLRCP server and for some reason it doesn't work

Here is the code (copied from the web) for the XMLRPC server:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# sum() server
     
use strict;
use warnings;
use Frontier::Daemon;
    
my $d = Frontier::Daemon->new(
      LocalPort => 8999,
      methods => {
      sum => \&sum,
      },
      LocalAddr => 'localhost'
) or die "Cannot start HTTP server $!\n"  ;
    
sub sum {
  my ($arg1, $arg2) = @_;
  print "summing $arg1 en $arg2\n";
  return $arg1 + $arg2;
}
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Client

use strict;
use Socket;

# initialize host and port
  my $host = 'localhost';
  my $port = 8999;
  my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');

# get the port address
  my $iaddr = inet_aton($host);
  my $paddr = sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr);
  # create the socket, connect to the port
  socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) or die "socket: $!";
  connect(SOCKET, $paddr) or die "connect: $!";

# create data
  my $data = <<"START" ;
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>sum</methodName>
<params>
<param>
  <value><double>1.12</double></value>
</param>
<param>
  <value><double>4.12</double></value>
</param>
</params>
</methodCall>
START
  my $header = <<"START" ;
POST /quotes.cgi HTTP/1.0
Host: localhost
Content-Type: text/xml
START

$header .= "Content-length: " .  length($data) ;
my $content = $header. "\n" . $data ;
print $content ;

print SOCKET "$content\n" ;

my $line;
while ($line = <SOCKET> )
{
  print $line;
}
close SOCKET or die "close: $!";
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I get the impression the client can connect, and probably sends the xml, but the server doesn't respond

Here is code from an other client I've tested:

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;


# create data
  my $data = <<"START" ;
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>sum</methodName>
<params>
<param>
  <value><double>1.12</double></value>
</param>
<param>
  <value><double>4.12</double></value>
</param>
</params>
</methodCall>
START
  my $header = <<"START" ;
POST /quotes.cgi HTTP/1.0
Host: localhost
Content-Type: text/xml
START

$header .= "Content-length: " .  length($data) ;
my $content = $header. "\n" . $data ;
print $content ;

my $response = $ua->post('http://localhost:8999', $content) ;

print $response->content;
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Now I get a response

<title>403 Forbidden</title>
<h1>403 Forbidden</h1>
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Only when I used Frontier::Client the client worked!!
Any suggestions why these two attemps failed ?

Thnx
LuCa

UPDATE: thnx for the replies. With the input below I managed to get the second client app to work too :)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Debug '+';


# create data
my $content = <<"START" ;
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>sum</methodName>
<params>
<param>
<value><double>1.12</double></value>
</param>
<param>
<value><double>4.12</double></value>
</param>
</params>
</methodCall>
START

print $content ;

my $req = HTTP::Request->new (POST => 'http://10.0.0.2:8999/RPC2');
$req->header('Content-Type' => 'text/xml');
$req->content($content);

my $response = $ua->request($req);

print $response->content;
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