1SOAP::Constants(3)    User Contributed Perl Documentation   SOAP::Constants(3)
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NAME

6       SOAP::Constants - SOAP::Lite provides several variables to allows pro‐
7       grammers and users to modify the behavior of SOAP::Lite in specific
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DESCRIPTION

11       A number of "constant" values are provided by means of this namespace.
12       The values aren't constants in the strictest sense; the purpose of the
13       values detailed here is to allow the application to change them if it
14       desires to alter the specific behavior governed.
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CONSTANTS

17       $DO_NOT_USE_XML_PARSER
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19       The SOAP::Lite package attempts to locate and use the XML::Parser pack‐
20       age, falling back on an internal, pure-Perl parser in its absence. This
21       package is a fast parser, based on the Expat parser developed by James
22       Clark. If the application sets this value to 1, there will be no
23       attempt to locate or use XML::Parser. There are several reasons you
24       might choose to do this. If the package will never be made available,
25       there is no reason to perform the test. Setting this parameter is less
26       time-consuming than the test for the package would be. Also, the
27       XML::Parser code links against the Expat libraries for the C language.
28       In some environments, this could cause a problem when mixed with other
29       applications that may be linked against a different version of the same
30       libraries. This was once the case with certain combinations of Apache,
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33       $DO_NOT_USE_CHARSET
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35       Unless this parameter is set to 1, outgoing Content-Type headers will
36       include specification of the character set used in encoding the message
37       itself. Not all endpoints (client or server) may be able to properly
38       deal with that data on the content header, however. If dealing with an
39       endpoint that expects to do a more literal examination of the header as
40       whole (as opposed to fully parsing it), this parameter may prove use‐
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43       $DO_NOT_CHECK_CONTENT_TYPE
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45       The content-type itself for a SOAP message is rather clearly defined,
46       and in most cases, an application would have no reason to disable the
47       testing of that header. This having been said, the content-type for
48       SOAP 1.2 is still only a recommended draft, and badly coded endpoints
49       might send valid messages with invalid Content-Type headers. While the
50       "right" thing to do would be to reject such messages, that isn't always
51       an option. Setting this parameter to 1 allows the toolkit to skip the
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54       $PATCH_HTTP_KEEPALIVE
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56       SOAP::Lite's HTTP Transport module attempts to provide a simple patch
57       to LWP::Protocol to enable HTTP Keep Alive. By default, this patch is
58       turned off, if however you would like to turn on the experimental patch
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

64       Special thanks to O'Reilly publishing which has graciously allowed
65       SOAP::Lite to republish and redistribute large excerpts from Program‐
66       ming Web Services with Perl, mainly the SOAP::Lite reference found in
67       Appendix B.
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70       Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Paul Kulchenko. All rights reserved.
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72       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
73       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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AUTHORS

76       Paul Kulchenko (paulclinger@yahoo.com)
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78       Randy J. Ray (rjray@blackperl.com)
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80       Byrne Reese (byrne@majordojo.com)
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