This slightly fixed version appears to generate a working proxy, part of the problem appears to lie in the apachesoap:Map which apparently isn't support - you can work around this by adding the type yourself.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wsdl:definitions
    name="webservice"
    targetNamespace="http://127.0.0.1/testSoap"
    xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
    xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap"
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
    xmlns:tns="http://127.0.0.1/testSoap"
    xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
    xmlns:xsd="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
  <types>
    <schema
        targetNamespace="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap"
        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
      <import
          namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
      </import>
      <complexType
          name="Map">
        <sequence>
          <element
              maxOccurs="unbounded"
              minOccurs="0"
              name="item">
            <complexType>
              <all>
                <element
                    name="key"
                    type="xsd:anyType">
                </element>
                <element
                    name="value"
                    type="xsd:anyType">
                </element>
              </all>
            </complexType>
          </element>
        </sequence>
      </complexType>
      <element
          name="Map"
          nillable="true"
          type="apachesoap:Map">
      </element>
    </schema>
  </types>
  <wsdl:message
      name="get_OUT"
      namespace="http://127.0.0.1/testSoap">
    <wsdl:part
        name="user"
        type="apachesoap:Map">
    </wsdl:part>
  </wsdl:message>
  <wsdl:message
      name="get_IN"
      namespace="http://127.0.0.1/testSoap">
    <wsdl:part
        name="id"
        type="xsd:int">
    </wsdl:part>
  </wsdl:message>
  <wsdl:portType
      name="webserviceInt">
    <wsdl:operation
        name="get">
      <wsdl:input
          message="tns:get_IN">
      </wsdl:input>
      <wsdl:output
          message="tns:get_OUT">
      </wsdl:output>
    </wsdl:operation>
  </wsdl:portType>
  <wsdl:binding
      name="webserviceBinding"
      type="tns:webserviceInt">
    <soap:binding
        style="rpc"
        transport="http">
    </soap:binding>
    <wsdl:operation
        name="get">
      <soap:operation
          soapAction="http://127.0.0.1/testSoap">
      </soap:operation>
      <wsdl:input>
        <soap:body
            namespace="http://127.0.0.1/testSoap"
            parts="tns:get_IN"
            use="encoded">
        </soap:body>
      </wsdl:input>
      <wsdl:output>
        <soap:body
            namespace="http://127.0.0.1/testSoap"
            parts="tns:get_OUT"
            use="encoded">
        </soap:body>
      </wsdl:output>
    </wsdl:operation>
  </wsdl:binding>
  <wsdl:service
      name="webserviceService">
    <wsdl:port
        binding="tns:webserviceBinding"
        name="webservicePort">
      <soap:address
          location="http://127.0.0.1/perl-bin/webservice.cgi">
      </soap:address>
    </wsdl:port>
  </wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>
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Hmm thanks but it didn't seem to make much difference.

The inderlying module still never gets called.

The server code is in two parts.

The service itself


#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use lib '/var/www/perl-bin';
use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;

print STDERR ("service called\n");

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
    -> dispatch_to('testSoap')
    -> handle;
exit(0);
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...and the underlying module



package testSoap;
use DBI;

sub get{
    print STDERR "module called\n";

    my ($self,$id) = @_;
    my $userinfo = {
    ID => 0,
    first => '',
    surname => '',
    age => 0,
    phone => ''
    };



    if ($id != 0 ){

    my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:CF:' . '127.0.0.1',  '<username>
+',  '<password>');

    my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select * from user where id=$id");

    $sth->execute;

    my $stuff= $sth->fetchrow_hashref;

    if ($stuff){

        $userinfo->{ID} = $stuff->{id};
        $userinfo->{first} = $stuff->{firstname};
        $userinfo->{surname} = $stuff->{surname};
        $userinfo->{age} = $stuff->{age};
        $userinfo->{phone} = $stuff->{phone};
    }


    }


    return $userinfo;

}

1;
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As you can see I get both to print to STDERR when they are called so I can see in the apache logs. but the module never gets called. Thanks again

Okay I faked up a server that returns the same hash as yours and then manually re-did the WSDL - fixing the transport, SOAP version namespace and soapAction and this appears now to work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions
    name="webService"
    targetNamespace="http://127.0.0.1/soapTest"
    xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
    xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap"
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
    xmlns:tns="http://127.0.0.1/soapTest"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsd1="http://127.0.0.1/webService.xsd1">
    <types>
        <xsd:schema
            targetNamespace="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap"
            xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
            xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
            xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
            xmlns:xsd1="http://127.0.0.1/webService.xsd1">
                <xsd:complexType name="item">
                    <xsd:all>
                        <xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="1" name=
+"key" type="xsd:anyType"/>
                        <xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="1" name=
+"value" type="xsd:anyType"/>
                    </xsd:all>
                </xsd:complexType>
            <xsd:complexType name="Map">
                <xsd:sequence>
                   <xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" name="item
+" type="apachesoap:item"/>
                </xsd:sequence>
            </xsd:complexType>
        </xsd:schema>
    </types>
    <message name="get_OUT">
        <part name="id" type="xsd:int"/>
    </message>
    <message name="get_IN">
        <part name="user" type="apachesoap:Map"/>
    </message>
    <portType name="webServicePortType">
        <operation name="get">
            <input message="tns:get_OUT"/>
            <output message="tns:get_IN"/>
        </operation>
    </portType>
    <binding name="webServiceBinding" type="tns:webServicePortType">
        <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.or
+g/soap/http"/>
        <operation name="get">
            <soap:operation soapAction="http://127.0.0.1/testSoap#get"
+/>
            <input>
                <soap:body
                    encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enc
+oding/"
                    namespace="http://127.0.0.1/testSoap"
                    parts="id"
                    use="encoded"/>
            </input>
            <output>
                <soap:body
                    encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enc
+oding/"
                    namespace="http://127.0.0.1/testSoap"
                    parts="user"
                    use="encoded"/>
            </output>
        </operation>
    </binding>
    <service name="webService">
        <port binding="tns:webServiceBinding" name="webServicePort">
            <soap:address location="http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/webservic
+e.cgi"/>
        </port>
    </service>
</definitions>
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