Programming Web Services with Perl

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452 | Index

LWP (Library for WWW Programming in

Perl)

additional resources, 13

HTTP::Daemon, 53, 58, 67, 73

HTTP::Daemon class, 146

modules in, 48

PRC::XMLSimple toolkit and, 53

XML::Parser toolkit and, 52

XML-RPC Meerkat example, 44

XML::RSS and, 22

LWP::UserAgent class

authentication, 274

CPAN uploads, 134

Meerkat example, 48

REST example, 256

wrapping, 118

M

MAC (message authentication code), 246

mailboxes, REST principles and, 242, 243

MAILTO (see specific classes)

mail-transfer agent (MTA), 172

make_fault method

SOAP::Server class, 345

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server

class, 350

make_method tool, 77

make_response method, (SOAP::Transport::

HTTP::Server), 350

make_url method, (Apache::RPC::

Status), 326

match method

SOAP::SOM, 157, 333

XMLRPC::SOM, 309

match_signature method (RPC::XML), 323

maxOccurs attribute (XML Schema), 27

MD5-based algorithm, 144

Meerkat news service

defined, 43

example, 7

RPC::XML example, 68–69, 370–373

RPC::XMLSimple example, 53–55,

364–367

XML-RPC and REST, 261

XML-RPC example, 42–49, 360–364

XMLRPC::Lite example, 6, 59–61,

367–370

message authentication code (MAC), 246

message element (WSDL), 189, 210

Message Exchange Pattern (SOAP), 261

messages

attachments and, 270

compressing, 49

full web services and, 262

HTTP structure, 10–13

MQ connections and, 169

packaging, 262

piping to scripts, 134

REST principles and, 243

routing capabilities, 263–267

security and, 271

SOAP functionality, 84

transport protocols and, 112

UDDI registries, 215

WSDL document component, 187

WS-Routing and, 263, 265

(see also requests; responses; SOAP

messages; XML messages)

messaging style (see document style)

META element (HTML), 288

Meta package, 137

Meta::Comm::Soap::Client class, 137

Meta::Comm::Soap::Server class, 137

metadata

DIME headers, 270

representation metadata, 238, 239, 252

SOAP Header element, 88

transition of messages, 84

method method

SOAP::SOM class, 131, 335

XMLRPC::SOM class, 309

method signal (SOAP::Trace), 347

method signatures

RPC::XMLSimple::Daemon class, 58

system.methodSignature method, 51

XML-RPC and, 41, 42

methodCall element (XML-RPC), 36

methodName element (XML-RPC), 36

methodResponse element (XML-RPC), 38

methods

accessor methods, 125

dispatching, 127–129

making requests and, 36

overloaded, 42

overloading, 147

overriding, 79

procedure name as, 109

REST, 244–245

return value restrictions, 42

RPC style and, 292

RPC::XML::Method, 74

RPC::XML::Server class and, 73