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SOAP::Constants(3pm) |
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SOAP::Constants − SOAP::Lite provides several variables to allows programmers and users to modify the behavior of SOAP::Lite in specific ways.
A number of "constant" values are provided by means of this namespace. The values aren’t constants in the strictest sense; the purpose of the values detailed here is to allow the application to change them if it desires to alter the specific behavior governed.
$DO_NOT_USE_XML_PARSER
The SOAP::Lite package attempts to locate and use the
XML::Parser package, falling back on an internal, pure-Perl
parser in its absence. This package is a fast parser, based
on the Expat parser developed by James Clark. If the
application sets this value to 1, there will be no attempt
to locate or use XML::Parser. There are several reasons you
might choose to do this. If the package will never be made
available, there is no reason to perform the test. Setting
this parameter is less time-consuming than the test for the
package would be. Also, the XML::Parser code links against
the Expat libraries for the C language. In some
environments, this could cause a problem when mixed with
other applications that may be linked against a different
version of the same libraries. This was once the case with
certain combinations of Apache, mod_perl and
XML::Parser.
$DO_NOT_USE_CHARSET
Unless this parameter is set to 1, outgoing Content-Type
headers will include specification of the character set used
in encoding the message itself. Not all endpoints (client or
server) may be able to properly deal with that data on the
content header, however. If dealing with an endpoint that
expects to do a more literal examination of the header as
whole (as opposed to fully parsing it), this parameter may
prove useful.
$DO_NOT_CHECK_CONTENT_TYPE
The content-type itself for a SOAP message is
rather clearly defined, and in most cases, an application
would have no reason to disable the testing of that header.
This having been said, the content-type for
SOAP 1.2 is still only a recommended draft,
and badly coded endpoints might send valid messages with
invalid Content-Type headers. While the "right"
thing to do would be to reject such messages, that
isn’t always an option. Setting this parameter to 1
allows the toolkit to skip the content-type test.
$PATCH_HTTP_KEEPALIVE
SOAP::Lite’s HTTP Transport module
attempts to provide a simple patch to LWP::Protocol to
enable HTTP Keep Alive. By default, this
patch is turned off, if however you would like to turn on
the experimental patch change the constant like so:
$SOAP::Constants::PATCH_HTTP_KEEPALIVE = 1;
Special thanks to O’Reilly publishing which has graciously allowed SOAP::Lite to republish and redistribute large excerpts from Programming Web Services with Perl, mainly the SOAP::Lite reference found in Appendix B.
Copyright (C) 2000−2004 Paul Kulchenko. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Paul Kulchenko (paulclinger@yahoo.com)
Randy J. Ray (rjray@blackperl.com)
Byrne Reese (byrne@majordojo.com)
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