SOAP::Transport::HTTP:User(Contributed Perl DocumSOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI(3)NAMESOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI - Generic SOAP CGI handler
SYNOPSIS
Use this class to expose SOAP endpoints using vanilla CGI. Here's an
example SOAP endpoint exposed using this class:
package ServerDemo;
use strict;
use SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI;
sub handler {
my $safe_classes = {
Calculator => undef,
};
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI->handler($safe_classes);
}
1;
(I leave it up to you to figure out how to get Perl scripts to run as
CGI scripts - please see your Perl docs for details)
DESCRIPTION
This class encapsulates the details of hooking up to CGI, and then
calls SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server to do the SOAP-specific stuff. This
way the Server class can be reused with any web server configuration
(including mod_perl), by simply composing it with a different front-end
(for instance, SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Apache, for instance.
handler(SafeClassHash, OptionalDispatcher)
This is the only method on the class, and you must pass a hash refer-
ence whose keys contain the collection of classes that may be invoked
at this endpoint. If you specify class FooBar in this list, for
instance, and a client sends a SOAP request to http://yours-
erver/soap?class=FooBar, then the SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server class
will eventually attempt to load FooBar.pm, instatiate a FooBar, and
call its handle_request function (see SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server for
more detail). If you don't include a class in this hash, SOAP/Perl
won't run it. I promise.
By the way, only the keys in this hash are important, the values are
ignored.
Also, nothing is stopping you from messing around with the response
yourself if you'd like to add some headers or whatever; you can always
call print() dump more headers to STDOUT. Just make sure you finish
what you're doing before you return to SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server,
because at that point the response is marshaled and sent back.
See SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server for details on the OptionalDispatcher
parameter.
DEPENDENCIES
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server
AUTHOR
Keith Brown
perl v5.8.8 2000-09-05 SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI(3)
