Re^5: checkVat - SOAP::Lite

[Anonymous Monk]

I forgot to say, the SOAP::Simple generated soap request returns 200 OK and data

$VAR1 = {
          'parameters' => {
                            'requestDate' => '2011-05-04+02:00',
                            'vatNumber' => '1234567890',
                            'valid' => 0,
                            'countryCode' => 'IE'
                          }
        };

[DreamT]

Nice!
Unfortunately, we're not in control of the server that we're installing it to, so installing SOAP::Simple isn't an alternative. So I copied your xml output and did it the ugly way:


#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

my $userAgent = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => 'perl post');

my $message = qq^<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/env
+elope/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <tns1:checkVat xmlns:tns1="urn:ec.europa.eu:taxud:vies:services:ch
+eckVat:types">
      <tns1:countryCode>IE</tns1:countryCode>
      <tns1:vatNumber>1234567890</tns1:vatNumber>
    </tns1:checkVat>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>^;

my $response = $userAgent->request(POST 'http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_
+customs/vies/services/checkVatService',
Content_Type => 'text/xml',
Content => $message);

print $response->error_as_HTML unless $response->is_success;

print $response->as_string;

However, I will of course push for getting the SOAP::Simple installed on the target server, but this solved the immediate problem. Thanks!