boat73 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings oh wise ones... I am trying to create and call a web service with perl using SOAP but am not having any luck getting any of the examples to work. I can run the client.pl but it prints nothing. Sample of the code is below and any help would be greatly appreciated. I am running this on an IIS 5 Windowz server using perl version 5.10.0 
####Client.pl####
#!perl -w  
use SOAP::Lite;
  print SOAP::Lite                                             
    -> uri('http://localhost/Echo')                                   
+          
    -> proxy('http://localhost/scripts/Server.cgi')
    -> hi()                                                    
    -> result;

####Server.cgi####
 #!perl -w

  use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;

  SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI   
    -> dispatch_to('Echo')     
    -> handle;

  package Echo;

  sub hi {                     
    return "hello, world";     
  }

  sub bye {                    
    return "goodbye, cruel world";
  }

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Re: Perl Web Service Returns Nothing
by Perlbotics (Archbishop) on Aug 10, 2011 at 16:56 UTC

    Works for me (Linux, Perl 5.10.0, lighttpd, SOAP::Transport::HTTP 0.710.08)

    The Server.cgi script needs to be run by your local webserver. Please perform the usual checks:

    • Examine webserver logs.
    • Server.cgi can be executed by webserver (permissions, *.cgi registered, path: scripts/ exists and is enabled to run CGI scripts, ...).
    • Pointing your browser to http://localhost/scripts/Server.cgi returns plausible result.
    • instead of #!perl -w, use absolute path to your perl installation.
    • Specify webserver port in proxy(...) (see client) if your webserver uses a non-standard port.
    • ...
    HTH

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