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You can also use a pure-Perl solution
Authored by: merlyn on Nov 25, '02 10:48:15AM
As illustrated in my article on developer.apple.com, you can also use Perl directly, rather than as a CGI through the web server.

The advantage is one of speed and convenience: the CGI version has to load up the SOAP support code on each hit, but the native-Perl version keeps it all in memory as part of the server. (You can get the same advantage with a bit more complication by using the mod_perl features of the server, but I find that dedicated stand-alone servers are generally easier to understand and configure.)

The article also shows how to talk to such a server directly from AppleScript.

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