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erroneousBollock
<blockquote>I have the WSDL description, but only in file form.</blockquote>
Are you sure?<p>
Web-services commonly serve their WSDL from the proxy URL with '?WSDL' appended.<p>
The [http://search.cpan.org/~byrne/SOAP-Lite-0.69/lib/OldDocs/SOAP/Transport/HTTP.pm|SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server] subclasses don't make it easy to serve your WSDL from the same service, so what I do is the following: <ol>
<li>use the <c>HTTP::Request->parse</c> constructor from [mod://HTTP::Request] to build a request from the raw incoming request, then</li>
<li>(depending on the $request->uri) I either:<ul>
<li>build a response containing WSDL, or</li>
<li>pass $request directly to SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server like this:<p><code>
my $soap = SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server
-> new(%args)
-> dispatch_to(@classes);
$soap->request($request);
$soap->handle;
my $response = $soap->response;
</code></p></li>
</ul></li>
</ol>
<blockquote>
Is it necessary that <c>WSDL</c> file be web served? I don't see how to use it as local file, is it possible?
</blockquote>
Sure, do something like this:<p>
<code>
my $soap = SOAP::WSDL->new();
$soap->wsdl('file:/path/to/file.wsdl');
$soap->proxy('http://server/service.cgi');
$soap->wsdlinit(caching => 1);
</code>
Loading from the file saves some time on script startup, using caching saves a lot of work on each request.<p>
<b>Update: </b> Fixed my URLs.<p>
-David
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