SOAP::Lite returning 500 error

nedals has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This should be really simple but it's not working for me. From my DOS window I can run....

## soapclient.pl ##
use SOAP::Lite;
print SOAP::Lite
    -> uri('http://www.soaplite.com/Demo')
    -> proxy('http://services.soaplite.com/hibye.cgi')
    -> hi()
    -> result;
exit;
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... and I get the expected result. However, if I put the 'same' SOAP server script on my server.

## soapserver.cgi ##
#!/usr/bin/perl
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;
exit;
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and run....

## soapclient.pl ##
use SOAP::Lite;
print SOAP::Lite
    -> uri('http://www.anything.com/Demo')
    -> proxy('http://dev.domain.com/cgi-bin/soapserver.cgi')
    -> hi()
    -> result;
exit;
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I get a '500 Internal ServerError at soapclient.pl line 2'
I do not have access to the logs (don't ask), so I added

use CGI::Carp(qw/warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser/);
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to my .cgi script and got this error..
Unexpected Content-Type 'text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' returned.

The problem is possibly with the uri. I just don't understand how it's constructed.
My reading tells me it can be almost anything followed by a package name where the package path is relative to the proxy script.

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Re: SOAP::Lite returning 500 error by Anonymous Monk on Sep 18, 2009 at 00:43 UTC
turn on debugging	[reply]
Re^2: SOAP::Lite returning 500 error by snoopy (Curate) on Sep 18, 2009 at 01:02 UTC
`require SOAP::Lite; SOAP::Lite::import(+trace => 'debug');` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: SOAP::Lite returning 500 error by snoopy (Curate) on Sep 18, 2009 at 00:59 UTC
I think you want may the `call` method on the client: `print SOAP::Lite -> uri('http://www.anything.com/Demo') -> proxy('http://dev.domain.com/cgi-bin/soapserver.cgi') -> call('hi') -> result;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: SOAP::Lite returning 500 error by Anonymous Monk on Sep 18, 2009 at 01:56 UTC
`->hi()` [download] is the same as `->call('hi')` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]