Hi all, I am trying to use RPC::XML to send request to a server and get back the result as response. But i get the following error when executing a small addition program. I have already installed perl web server in port:80. My program is as follows: 
        #!/usr/bin/perl 
         # Testing sum()
         
         use strict;
         use warnings;
        use RPC::XML::Client;
    
        
        sub sum {
          my ($args1,$args2) = @_;
          print "inside sum";
          return $args1 + $args2;
        }
        
        my @args = (9,9);
        print "The numbers to be added are :@args\n";
        my $client = new RPC::XML::Client
        'http://lovalhost:80';
       my $req = RPC::XML::request->new('sum', @args);
       my $res = $client->send_request($req);
       print "The result is : $res";

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I get the following error as result. 
The numbers to be added are :9 9
The result is :
syntax error at line 1, column 54, byte 54:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
=====================================================^
<HTML>
 at C:/Perl/site/lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm line 394

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As i am newbie in perl i am not able to figure out the reason for the error.Please help me out in rectifying this one. The main aim is to integrate perl and JAVA.That is the reason i am in need of RPC::XML.... Thanks in advance, Aishu

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