I'm not entirely familiar with SOAP::Deserializer; I've generally used XML::Simple family of parsers, and I've not had such problems with them. Sorry I can't be of more help than that.

Thanks for your idea.

I use SOAP::Deserializer only because it is a natural part of processing SOAP responses.

Trying again with another deserializer like this:

my $soap = SOAP::Lite
  ->uri($uri)->proxy( $proxyUrl, timeout => 5 )
  ->deserializer(XMLRPC::Lite->new());
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I end up with the error message from XMLRPC::Lite "A service address has not been specified either by using SOAP::Lite->proxy() or a service description)" although there is a proxy. I can watch the request and the response on the wire.

So my last chance seems to be overloading deserialize() with a custom deserializer

my $soap = SOAP::Lite
  ->uri($uri)->proxy( $proxyUrl, timeout => 5 )
  ->deserializer(Deserialize->new());


package Deserialize;

use warnings;
use strict;

use SOAP::Lite;
use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA = ('SOAP::Deserializer');

sub deserialize { return $_[1] }

1;
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Cheers, Axel.